Throwback Camp Photos (Photo Courtesy of Danielle Maack) Do you remember the Moon Walker? This attraction used to stand where Kids Cosmos Energy Depletion Zone sits today. Museum guests leapt to new heights back and forth, seemingly unbound by Earth’s gravity. Though this simulator was dismantled in the late 90s, it was       announced at the […]

Summer 2015 is in the books! We hope that it was as wonderful for you personally as it was for Space Camp, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and our Alumni organization. In July we gathered many from the Alumni family for our inaugural Space Camp Alumni Festival, and we are happy to report it was a […]

Space Camp Alumni, this is CAPCOM, we are resuming the Countdown! If you’ve forgotten what it’s like to be inspired or it’s been awhile since you’ve had a unique experience, then accept this invitation to come to Huntsville (July 23-25) for what promises to be a magical weekend. The Alumni Advancement Board (AAB) has created […]

This Year’s Space Camp Hall of Fame Inductees This month, the Space Camp Hall of Fame welcomes four new members. All four inductees are Camp alumni who have gone on to achieve extraordinary success in their chosen fields, including, for the first time, one who is a star in the performing arts world. The four […]

Shuttle Training Aircraft Coming to Shuttle Park! Shuttle Park is soon to get a new addition, NASA 945, a Shuttle Training Aircraft. NASA 945 was one of 4 modified Gulfstream II jets used to train astronauts how to land the space shuttle. After a successful IndieGoGo campaign by the AAB to raise the funds for its […]

Throwback Camp Photos  In 1988 Space Camp opened up its second outpost in Titusville, Florida at the US Astronaut Hall of Fame, Space Camp Florida. It featured several of the same simulators as in Huntsville but several things set it apart, ranging from driving lunar rover simulators to being able to watch Space Shuttle launches […]

Touching A Dream, An F-14 Restoration Volunteer’s Story First-hand story from Alison Cash, Space Camp Volunteer on the F-14 Tomcat restoration: I don’t remember when the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first came into my life. I grew up on Air Force bases, and have had a love affair with airplanes from a very young age. But […]

 Do you live near or in New York City? Come celebrate the induction into the Space Camp Hall of Fame for Susanna Phillips at The Juilliard School in New York City, Thursday, June 18 at 4 p.m. Susanna is a Space Camp alumna and American opera singer who has sung leading lyric soprano roles at the Lyric […]

Opening on the Space Camp Alumni Advancement Board The  Space Camp Alumni Advancement Board (AAB) has an opening for a regular member. In order to be eligible, a regular member must be a graduate of Space Camp, Aviation Challenge, Robotics, an affiliate program, or be a former Space & Rocket Center staff member. We are […]