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 […]

Eagle 102, F-14 Refurbishment During filming of TOP GUN at NAS Miramar, one special F-14 designated Eagle 102 was based there. Eight years after TOP GUN’s release, Eagle 102 arrived at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. In the last twenty years Eagle 102 has been on display, the harsh elements of Alabama weather and […]

Throwback Camp Photos (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center) During the 1980s, Space Campers got to don spacesuits and conduct EVAs on the lunar surface! Can you imagine wearing spacesuits under the hot, Alabama sun? 

  New Exhibit, Space Station: Science On Orbit Changes are afoot at the Mission Center Complex.  Endeavour is moving to make room for a new, permanent exhibit ‘Space Station: Science On Orbit’. This exciting, new exhibit will immerse visitors in the engineering that went into the International Space Station as well as the science taking […]

Throwback Camp Photos  (Photo courtesy U.S. Space & Rocket Center) Does this look familiar to you?  This is how the Training Center Floor (Now the Mission Center Floor) appeared in the early 1990’s.  Some of the Simulators shown are the Multi Axis Trainers (2), Space Station Mobility Trainer, Manned Maneuvering Unit simulator, Mars Mission simulator, and the […]