All of the clips and presentations from the 2014 International Space Camp Opening Ceremony are now posted up on the Hab1.com YouTube channel including, for the very first time, the entirety of the ceremony from start to finish!
You can head right on over the the 2014 International Space Camp Opening Ceremony YouTube playlist, or take a look at the individual selections below:
The Austrian contingent gave an absolutely charming presentation Saturday night at the 2014 International Space Camp Opening Ceremony!
This past Saturday kicked off the 2014 session of International Space Camp. This is the 23rd session of Interantionaal Space Camp!
This year, Australia started things off with this ace of a presentation!
The 2014 session of International Space Camp is now in full swing!
A great way to keep up-to-date with the happenings and goings-on of International Space Camp in real time is to check out the Twitter feeds of some of the participants.
For your convenience, I’ve created a list of these ISC 2014 participants on Twitter you can subscribe to or just visit to see all of their recent posts in one spot! Should I turn up any more tweeting participants, I’ll update the list as well as this post.
Update: The Belgium contingent has a public page on facebook.
Once again, the Alumni Advancement Board is looking for volunteers this weekend to help down at Aviation Challenge with the continued refurbishing of the F16 as well as other displays, the F-14 included!
The first effort on June 28 was a smashing success. Volunteers were able to make a first pass on most of the airplane, but there’s still work to be done!
If you can spare your Saturday morning, head on over to the sign up page to volunteer this weekend or any weekend in the coming weeks where you will be available to help!
It’s great fun!
The Alumni Advancement Board is looking for volunteers to help clean and prepare several artifacts around Camp over the course of this summer, and you can help! First on the list, volunteers are going to meet this Saturday morning to work on the F-16 down at Aviation Challenge!
If you’re interested, sign up on the volunteer page! You can sign up for one or several Saturdays. Come prepared to work outside as weather permits. Recommend items:
The planned starting time is 7am so that work can be started and finished before the Alabama summer makes it unbearable to work outdoors. If a day is cancelled or delayed due to weather, an email will be sent out. That’s why it’s important you go sign up!
Last month, the U.S. Space & Rocket Center successfully raised $71,340 to bring the Shuttle Training Aircraft to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It was a campaign spearheaded by both the Space Center as well as the newly formed Space Camp Alumni Association and its corresponding Alumni Advisory Board.
In the time since, the group has been actively reaching out to Space Camp and Aviation Challenge alumni through their Twitter Feed and Facebook Group, as well as in person at graduations and other events.
Today they reach further with a new website, SpaceCampAlumni.com.
The site offers a very nice overview as to the mission of the organization and its board members.
Most important of all, the site offers a means to help alumni become more active in spreading the wonders of what a Space Camp experience can mean to an individual. If you’re interested, look to the “Get Involved” section on the site for information on how you can help!
If you simply just wish to stay up-to-date with the goings on of both Space Camp and the Alumni Advisory Board, it’s a simple matter of providing your name and email address, which I wholeheartedly recommend you do!
Little Debbie, in promotion of their Cosmic Cupcakes, are again giving away trips to Space Camp!
See here for the official rules.
Every month through the end of the year, a winner will be chosen to receive a “Weekend Family Space Camp” (transportation not included).
Best of luck!
You no doubt saw The Onion satirize NASA a few weeks ago by talking about Space Camp’s new more realistic NASA simulation!
Here’s the link, for those who may have missed it.
I think the funniest part is the realization that The Onion actually fact checks their work, given that Deborah Barnhart, Space Camp’s CEO, got a mention! Someone had to look that up. They could have made up a name, but they chose to do some research instead!
Kudos
There’s a new book just out about the development of the Space Transportation System and the very early years of the Space Shuttle Program.
The book, Bold They Rise, is the culmination of years of research from authors David Hitt and Heather R. Smith.
The book itself is part of the “Outward Odyssey” series of space books from book publisher, University of Nebraska Press. A previous installment to the series, Homesteading Space, detailing the development of the Skylab program and its missions, was also written David Hitt, along with Skylab Astronauts Owen Garriott and Joe Kerwin.
To celebrate the launch of their new book, David and Heather were joined this past weekend at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center by husband and wife Astronaut-duo Dr. Rhea Seddon and Robert “Hoot” Gibson to discuss the contents of the book as well as the pair’s time in the Astronaut Corps.
Afterwards, a book singing was held for those in attendance.
The book itself is available from Amazon, amongst other places. And if you swing by the Space Center to pick one up, you might just find one of the several extra copies the four signed after the presentation.
The entire presentation, including a Q&A session at the end, is available over on the Hab1 YouTube page.
Don’t forget to pick up a copy of Bold They Rise, if you are so inclined!
