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Mission Updates

Space Camp Alumni Spotlight: Michelle Christensen

Alumni Spotlight (Photo Courtesy of Michelle Christensen) Dr. Michelle Christensen took an early interest in space and rockets, especially rocket engines. When she was 5 years old, her father took her to Kennedy Space Center as a side trip to Disney World. “My parents did not expect me to be more excited […]

Space Camp Alumni Spotlight: Andrea Hanson

Alumni Spotlight Dr. Andrea Hanson always knew she wanted to pursue a career in engineering. She grew up in Lake Park, MN and while in high school she won an award that came with a tour of the 3M facility in St. Paul, MN. The tour guide was a chemical engineer and demonstrated to Andrea […]

Space Camp Alumni Festival in Review 2015

Space Camp Alumni Festival in Review The first Space Camp Alumni Festival was a rousing success! Sims were flown, astronauts were met, and over $15,000 was raised for Space Camp scholarships. Take a look at all that took place as we lay the groundwork for next year’s festival!

Throwback Space Camp Photos: Moon Walker

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 […]

‘We Have Cleared the Tower’: Space Camp Alumni Festival 2015

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 […]

2015 Alumni Fest Announcement

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 […]

2015 Space Camp Hall of Fame Inductees

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 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 […]

Florida Throwback Space Camp Photos

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 […]