ATTENTION ALL SPACE CAMP ALUMNI IN THE FLORIDA SPACE COAST REGION AND/OR THOSE ATTENDING THE ORION EFT-1 LAUNCH: The Space Camp Alumni Advancement Board will be participating in a pre-launch dinner Wednesday, December 3rd beginning at 6:00PM at El Leoncito in Titusville, FL (El Leoncito – 4280 S. Washington Ave (US#1); Titusville, FL 32780 http://elleoncito.com/ […]

This summer at Alumni Weekend, Katie Roller Schulz Ditchen, Chair of the Fundraising Committee, and I, Ben Chandler, your Vice-Chair of the Alumni Advancement Board, had the privilege of presenting four incredible alumni with awards to honor their commitment to alumni advancement during the Hall of Fame dinner. These particular alumni have devoted a substantial amount of time and […]

As I sit here having finally caught my breath from a wonderful whirlwind Alumni Weekend, I can’t help but reflect on the past 6 months and where we’ve been as a new “alumni movement.” While looking over my shoulder at the runway behind us, it’s hard to resist looking skyward with child-like excitement on what […]

Welcome to EAA Airventure 2014! We’re here! This year the Space Camp Alumni community joined forces with Space Camp, Aviation Challenge, Space Camp Robotics, and the U.S. Space and Rocket Center to support a week-long experience at the World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration: EAA Airventure. Alumni have stopped in to visit us going all the way […]

Whether you’re a first-generation Space Camp graduate from the 1980s, or a new trainee about to attend one of the many fantastic programs at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center for the first time hoping to “peek under the curtain” – I’m glad you stopped by! SpaceCampAlumni.com is operated by the recently formed Space Camp […]

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 […]