The helo dunker is an underwater egress training component that is much loved in the Aviation Challenge community, but had to be removed from our program for a time. We’re excited to share that the experience has now returned to Aviation Challenge! In 2020, the helo dunker system at the Aviation Challenge lake had to […]

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 […]

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 […]

  Margrit von Braun is an environmental engineer specializing in hazardous waste management and risk assessment. Her father was Dr. Wernher von Braun, the first director of the Marshall Space Flight Center and led the development of the Saturn V rocket that sent the Apollo astronauts to the moon. Margrit was one of the first women to join the University […]

With over one million Space Camp Alumni in the world, the alumni of Space Camp programs have gone on to work in a diverse set of career fields with incredibly unique specialties and talents. Space Camp opened in 1982 and captured the attention of many children looking to find a place to increase their knowledge about space exploration and science. What they also found during […]

This summer a special gift was given to return a beloved piece of equipment to our Aviation Challenge program. In summer of 2020, the owner of the previous helo dunker on loan to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center requested that it be taken down and returned, thus removing that activity from the program. The […]

  On Tuesday August 17th, renowned Tuskegee Airmen Lt. Col. George Hardy and Lt. Col. James Harvey came to the Aviation Challenge campus to celebrate 30 years of the aviation inspiring program. NASA Astronaut Victor Glover was also in attendance to speak to the Aviation Challenge trainees in the audience about reaching for the stars […]

As summer 2021 winds down, it brings reflection of how far Space Camp programs have come since the 2020 season, and how far they still have yet to go to get back to pre-pandemic levels. Space Camp programs returned in summer 2021 after weathering the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic that began in spring 2020. […]