Space Camp has posted video from the Good Morning America spots onto their YouTube page.
Good stuff!
Take a gander, if you weren’t able (read: awake) to watch!
The opening:
The rest:
The Good Morning America spot no doubt provided Space Camp (and Dreamland Barbecue) with great exposure that will hopefully lead to some more Space Camp bookings in the near future!
Space Camp sent out an email to let people know that our Saturn V will be featured on Good Morning America tomorrow morning as one of the “7 Wonders of America.”
From the email:
Good Morning America has named our Saturn V 500D/F as one of the 7 Wonders of America. The official announcement will be broadcast on Monday, May 12, and staff from ABC Television are already here in Huntsville preparing for the show that will broadcast from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. (Eastern and Central times)
ABC will do a series of “live shots” from the Davidson Center during the two-hour program and will discuss our newly-restored Saturn V rocket — the effort to build that rocket and send humans to the moon, our efforts to preserve it, Huntsvilles and Marshall Space Flight Center’s rich heritage in the space program, and SPACE CAMP’s efforts to ignite the interest of America’s next generation of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and explorers.
Be sure to tune in! And if you happen to be one of the newly hired counselors having just arrived for training, be sure to go out and wave to America!
Thanks to Matthew Danner, the HabFiles section has received an update!
A book was produced and given out to international Space Camp licensees. It’s a very nice artifact. It has some rarely seen photos of now defunct Space Camps as well as listings of some that were not meant to be. Quite a find!
Also, pay particular attention to Page 20. Recognize the former First Kid?
Check it out! And enjoy!
Some very lucky Space Campers were able to go to Marshall Space Flight Center today to see the crew of STS-122!
The crew brought along a highlight reel of their mission and took questions from both Space Campers and NASA-folk alike!
Afterwards, the crew was gracious enough to stick around and sign autographs!
Here’s a big, bold reminder that today is the very last day to submit your nomination for the 2008 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.
Get to it!
Nominations for the 2008 Space Camp Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony are due on April 13, 2008!
You can nominate whomever you feel best meets the criteria as outlined on the Hall of Fame Nomination Criteria page.
From there you can also submit the nomination.
Last year’s inductees can be seen here.
Remember, April 13 is the last day to submit nominations!
A display with pieces of Columbia was set up a few days ago in the lobby of the building I work in.
It’s quite sobering to stand so close to remnants of such a tragedy. And yet it provides a very sobering reminder and memorial.
I thought it right to share with all of you.
Photo collage of reconstruction after the accident:
The text reads, “Everyone that touches a mission, on every level, is responsible for what it represents and the lives that are involved.”
Flight Deck Overhead Switch Panel O17:
Flight Deck Port Aft Bulkhead Window:
Orbiter Translational Hand Controller:
Forward Reaction Control System Thruster:
Left RCC Panel 8:
Left Hand Wing Tip with RCC Embedded:
Left Orbiter Maneuvering System Pod Fuel Drain Purge Panel:
It seems the Space Center hasn’t been taking care of all of their artifacts. Say it isn’t so!
NASA Watch had this post the other day.
In short, if you visited the Space Center during the mid-90s, you would have been able to walk though the Skylab trainer.
Well, it’s been sitting outside the back of the Space Center for years and it seems recent efforts to protect and preserve have been thwarted by the Space Center.
There’s also a swift kick at the end “alleging” (there’s photographic evidence) that the USSRC has been letting people climb around Casper for a small $10,000 fee.
I can only hope that nothing is as bad as it looks from this piece and that the Space & Rocket Center curator would want to do everything in her power to preserve to the best of her abilities every piece of space history in her care.
Anything less would be a true shame.
I just today received in my inbox some enticing offers for anyone who signs up soon for a weeklong session of Space Camp!
Currently we are offering a $200 discount for all 8-day programs including: Space Academy, Advanced Space Academy, Mach II and Mach III and X-Camp…Enter promotional code SPR8 when you complete your registration. Click here to Register NOW!. Hurry, discount ends May 15, 2008!
If you’re going to Space Camp or Mach I with a friend, you can get a $100 discount when you call. They call it an “alumni discount.” I’m not sure how that works, exactly. I guess presumably you’re going back with someone that was on your team during a previous session. They tell you to call (1-800-63-SPACE, of course) for that one, so you can ask for a clarification.
Finally, new campers to Space Camp or Aviation Challenge Mach I can receive either a $150 gift certificate to the gift shop, an iPod Shuffle with a thumb drive, or a flight suit when you sign up with the promo code EDGE. This discount also expires on May 15th.
Register online to use the promo codes without ever having to speak to another human being! Now that’s convenience!
Space Camp has started up their own channel on YouTube.
You’ll no doubt want to check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/user/spacecampusa
Don’t you think this would make an outstanding place for Space Camp to put all of that archival footage they have sitting on the shelf? It would, indeed!
