John Ratnaswamy first attended Space Camp in 1993 (Adult Level I).  He went with two friends, one who worked on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the other a computer scientist and science fiction author. They had a terrific time and reportedly were the first team in a simulated mission to land the Orbiter at Dakar, […]

Special thanks to everyone joining us in Huntsville today for the official public announcement of the Alumni Advancement Board and the launch of the Indiegogo crowdsourced fundraising effort to bring the Grumman Gulfstream II Shuttle Training Aircraft to Shuttle Park at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.   You can read the full announcement but these were […]

Join us July 28 – August 3 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin for the “world’s greatest aviation celebration,” at EAA AirVenture! We invite the alumni community to join us in Oshkosh, as an attendee of EAA AirVenture or as one of our many volunteers for the week of air shows, warbirds, precision aerobatics, vintage aircraft…and Space Camp! That’s right, […]

The United States Air Force’s F-16 was designed to push the edge and challenge conventional combat assumptions at a time when air-to-air missiles were meant to reign supreme. Aviation Challenge and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center is home to a 1978 model F-16. This year the Alumni community came together with the Space Center […]