What a night! After two years of COVID and hitting pause on different engagements, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center hosted its first internal event: Apollo to Artemis | The 50th Anniversary of Apollo 16. This event that was held on April 20th, allowed us to not only reflect on the 50th anniversary of Apollo […]

On Wednesday, April 20, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apollo 16. On that day, fifty years ago, Astronauts Charlie Duke and John Young successfully landed their lunar module on the moon, while Ken Mattingly orbited the moon in the command module. In honor of this mission, we held the Apollo to Artemis dinner underneath the Saturn […]

Mad Scientist Bash was on March 12, 2022 and party goers were excited that the event was able to go forward at its rescheduled date! This was the first public event that the U.S. Space & Rocket Center had been able to hold since the beginning of COVID. This year’s theme was “brain science”, focusing […]

“You’re going to Space Camp!” These are some of the best words that I have ever spoken. Announcements for the General Scholarship Program were made at the end of February to children whose household income falls under the financial need category. The general scholarship had 152 applications from 15 different countries and 31 different states. […]

Mad Scientist Bash was on March 12, 2022 and party goers were excited that the event was able to go forward at its rescheduled date! This year’s theme was “brain science”, focusing on the interworking of the brain and developments in neuroscience that are furthering research in the field. Warren de Wit was the speaker […]

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Lots of exciting news ahead this year at Space Camp! The new Boeing Space Camp Operations Center has officially gone vertical, and steel beams have begun to be placed to form the core structure of the new building. The skyline of Space Camp will look very different coming summer 2022 and the building is slated […]

Lots of exciting news ahead this year at Space Camp! The new Boeing Space Camp Operations Center has officially gone vertical, and steel beams have begun to be placed to form the core structure of the new building. The skyline of Space Camp will look very different coming summer 2022 and the building is slated […]

If given two words to summarize 2021 season at Space Camp, two top choices would be, “adapt” and “overcome”. While 2020 brought many challenges, 2021 brought a renewed sense of focus on the core mission at Space Camp. There was quite a bit of adapting that needed to take place, masks were in place for […]