Jun 2009
AC 12 Day is Almost Here
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Filed in: Aviation
Challenge News
The Summer season is well under way and the only 12
day Mach III session at Aviation Challenge is about
to get underway.
The space side of the house most definitely dropped the ball this year when they decided not to hold a 12 day Advanced Academy session, so this is it for 2009!
But AC certainly won’t be coasting through this one.
No less than Space Camp Hall of Fame member Josh “Safety” Whitfield has been hard at work these past few months along with Red Bull and other AC staffers to make sure that this 12 day will be well remembered by those lucky enough to get a spot on the team before it filled up in record time!
A preview of what’s to come for 12 day has been put together and it’s worth a look.
Wait until the 1:14 mark to find out one very new element to Aviation Challenge that the 12 day campers will get to experience:
The space side of the house most definitely dropped the ball this year when they decided not to hold a 12 day Advanced Academy session, so this is it for 2009!
But AC certainly won’t be coasting through this one.
No less than Space Camp Hall of Fame member Josh “Safety” Whitfield has been hard at work these past few months along with Red Bull and other AC staffers to make sure that this 12 day will be well remembered by those lucky enough to get a spot on the team before it filled up in record time!
A preview of what’s to come for 12 day has been put together and it’s worth a look.
Wait until the 1:14 mark to find out one very new element to Aviation Challenge that the 12 day campers will get to experience:
You Can Go Home Again
Monday, June 08, 2009 Filed in: Alumni News
And I am going back to camp!
Space Camp has put together a great overview of the Hall of Fame weekend including the schedule for the Adult Alumni Space Academy session.
Like last year, the camp will only be 3 days instead of the 4 day program they held during the 25th Anniversary, but what an action packed 3 days it’s going to be!
Highlights include a ‘Steak & Egg’ Breakfast with Hoot Gibson, 2 missions, Area 51 and Aviation Challenge time, and admission to both the Saturn/Apollo Reunion Dinner and the Space Camp Hall of Fame Dinner is included!
The tickets alone will cost $60! Just use that to subsidize the cost of camp!
And, it’s gotten even better. Register now and bring a buddy and Space Camp will take $100 off of both your tuitions!
So while the session is a bargain at the following prices:
Without housing: $349
With housing: $399
It’s a downright steal when you bring a friend:
Without housing: $249
With housing: $299
That’s a great deal! In fact, if you extrapolate that out to a six day session, that would be $598!
Opening my 1993 program guide that I happen to have in front of me at this very moment, I see here that Space Academy Level I was $650 for a Summer session for six days! That was sixteen years ago!
GO TO SPACE CAMP!
Here are all the details directly from Space Camp, in lovely PDF form.
Name that Weekend
Monday, June 01, 2009 Filed in: Space Camp
Contests
Space Camp is currently holding a contest to help
them “Re-name the Reunion.”
You can view the press release in its entirety, but here’s the gist:
To submit your idea, visit www.spacecamp.com/reunion. Nominations are being accepted now through June 5, 2009. Saturn V Executive Committee members will select five names from those nominations, and the public will be able to vote for their favorite of the Final Five on the same web site from June 12th through July 8, 2009. The person submitting the winning name will receive a one-year family membership to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and the new name will be announced at this year’s reunion.
The full link to submit is:
http://www.spacecamp.com/reunionweekend/reunionName.php
Personally, I never thought that was anything wrong with “Reunion Weekend,” but then again, I guess I’m just an engineer with no imagination!
Submissions are due by June 5th,
Also, Alumni Andi came out of hiding to make a HabForum post about this contest. You can go discuss your ideas for names in her thread.
You can view the press release in its entirety, but here’s the gist:
To submit your idea, visit www.spacecamp.com/reunion. Nominations are being accepted now through June 5, 2009. Saturn V Executive Committee members will select five names from those nominations, and the public will be able to vote for their favorite of the Final Five on the same web site from June 12th through July 8, 2009. The person submitting the winning name will receive a one-year family membership to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, and the new name will be announced at this year’s reunion.
The full link to submit is:
http://www.spacecamp.com/reunionweekend/reunionName.php
Personally, I never thought that was anything wrong with “Reunion Weekend,” but then again, I guess I’m just an engineer with no imagination!
Submissions are due by June 5th,
Also, Alumni Andi came out of hiding to make a HabForum post about this contest. You can go discuss your ideas for names in her thread.