Atlantis has flown her last mission. Yesterday, Space Camp made the following post to their facebook page:
And so ends a very long era. Atlantis came to Space Camp in 1986, after its use in SpaceCamp the movie had finished.
Farewell, Atlantis. You were a good ship. You did your namesake proud.
I’m behind on this by a few weeks, granted.
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center announced the class for the 2017 Space Camp Hall of Fame and it is a special one!
First up, NASA Astronaut Dr. Serena Aũnón-Chancellor shall be inducted. Serena is the fourth Space Camp alumna Astronaut to receive this honor. She is currently training for an upcoming mission to the International Space Station!
Dr. Jennifer Heldmann is a Research Science at NASA’s Ames Research Center. She earned a Ph.D. in Planetary Science at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Marine Maj. John Hecker has the right stuff! He’s the pilot of “Fat Albert,” the Blue Angels’ C-130!
Dr. Michelle K. Christensen is a former Space Camper and counselor. Before earning a Ph.D. from Penn State University, she spent some time at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, and she currently works at Blue Origin.
Want to see these fine folks inducted in person? Get your tickets for the 2017 Space Camp Summerfest!
And read about the event and more in the Spring Edition of the Space Camp Alumni Association’s newsletter.
NASA’s annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge (formally known as The Great Moonbuggy Race) begins tomorrow, March 31, and runs through Saturday!
The event will be live streamed on Marshall Space Flight Center’s USTREAM page, and details throughout the event can be viewed on the Challenge’s Facebook page.
Good luck to all of the competitors!
Back around the time of the 2015 Space Camp Hall of Fame weekend, there was a camera crew running all over Space Camp!
The result of that work is set to be shown in a new Netflix documentary, The Mars Generation, set to be available on that service on May 5.
A trailer was released today for the documentary, and it looks mighty exciting!
I was contacted recently by a teacher in search of other teachers.
She and some other teachers want to go not just to Space Camp for Educators this summer, but a special Advanced Space Academy for Educators! But they’re a few teachers short of a team!
If you or a teacher you know are interested in going to Camp, June 29 to July 3 is looking for five more teachers!
If you or someone you know might be interested, shoot me an email, and I can put you in touch with the teacher who contacted me!
The Space Camp for Educators is an excellent resource for teachers. You or a teacher you know would be well served to go through it! Even better served, perhaps, by going through an ASA version of the program!
It has been a long time coming, but the Shuttle Training Aircraft arrived at The Space & Rocket Center this past Thursday!
The wings preceded its arrival by a day or two, and the entire plane is set to be mounted tomorrow!
Space Camp received a quick name drop in the Seth Rogan sequel, Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising.
The reference comes about 53:40 into the movie.
In the midst of all of the stories and reporting regarding President Trump’s Executive Order banning certain individuals from entering the United States, one human interest story involving Space Camp came to light.
Pouya Ghadirian, a 15-year-old with dual-Australian-Iranian citizenship, was planning on going to Space Camp this March, but the order has caused the rejection of his visa application.
The story received a fair bit of traction in the press, with articles published by numerous outlets, including:
Update: with the courts having struck down the ban, Pouya’s trip to Space Camp is back on!
Space Camp was again featured on an episode of The Goldbergs. Last night’s episode entitled “Snow Day,” the twelfth in this fourth season of the show, saw the main character Adam wearing a SpaceCamp movie logo sweatshirt throughout the episode!
After this year’s “Hoot Camp,” an Adult Advanced Space Academy with Astronauts Robert “Hoot” Gibson and Bob Springer, wraps up tomorrow, Hoot Gibson will be sticking around to do a Facebook Live Q&A!
Tune in at 12:30pm CDT to ask Hoot a question and hear what he has to say!
