There’s a new Air Force add, Calling, that you might have seen on your television recently.
The add highlights several in the Air Force, showing footage from their younger selves juxtaposed with their duties in the Air Force.
One of them, Captain Cynthia Nogueras, is featured in what is unmistakably a Space Camp flight suit, despite the blurring of the Space Camp and Space & Rocket Center patches.
The flight suit makes an appearance at about twelve seconds in.
Space Camp will launch an all new design for their websites complete with brand new content (e.g. produced promotional videos) within the next few weeks!
This move has been in the works for a while, but has become increasingly necessary since the Space Camp / Aviation Challenge websites went down several weeks ago for a period lasting several days. Since returning online, the site itself seems to have been somewhat stripped down, and not everything is where it ought to be.
For an entertaining jaunt through the history of spacecamp.com, head on over to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and see their listing of old Space Camp sites. I’ve always felt the site circa 2004 was pretty shiny!
Though it had to be moved indoors from its planned Shuttle Park location, the press conference held today at Space Camp otherwise went off without a hitch.
U.S. Space & Rocket Center CEO Deborah Barnhart, Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission Chair Col. Roosevelt Lewis (Ret.), Space Camp Alumni Advisory Board Chair John Ramsey, and Astronaut Col. Jim Halsell (Ret.) spoke today about the effort to bring the Shuttle Training Aircraft to the Space & Rocket Center, amongst other highlights at the Center.
Dr. Barnhart asked supporters, in honor of the Center’s 44th birthday, to donate forty-four dollars to the STA Indiegogo campaign. A new incentive was also issued today at the $44 level as well.
The event today was covered at al.com, WHNT 19, and WAFF 48. All have different pieces of footage and interviews that are worth checking out.
The entirety of the press conference is also up on the Hab1 YouTube page in its entirety.
Robert Pearlman, editor of collectSPACE, wrote up a nice piece when the campaign started that’s worth a look as well. Space.com even picked it up, hopefully providing even more exposure!
As of this writing, 71 contributors have donated $22,000 towards the $70,000 goal. It should be noted that, unlike many crowd-funding campaigns, this is not an all-or-nothing campaign. Should the Space & Rocket Center fail to raise the $70,000 they’re looking for, they will still have gotten off to a very nice start!
The campaign is only nearing the end of its second week though and has been making steady progress throughout that time. The Rocket Center is on track to exceed the $70,000 goal if donations continue in at the current rate!
The US Space & Rocket Center turns 44 today!
To commemorate this event, and to make some important announcements regarding the Shuttle Training Aircraft Indiegogo campaign, there will be a press conference at 10am in Shuttle Park at the Space & Rocket Center today.
You’re absolutely invited to come out and support the Space Center, and there will even be birthday cake (no lie)!
Update: Due to weather, the press conference will now take place in front of Endeavour, near the UAT.
Space Camp has launched a new crowd-funding initiative!
Hosted on indiegogo, Space Camp is attempting to secure funds to bring NASA’s Shuttle Training Aircraft, a modified Gulfstream II airplane, to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center.
The USSRC has set a funding goal of $70,000, and they’re offering various incentives depending on the amount you donate. One of the higher perks involves VIP access during the Space Camp Hall of Fame weekend in August, and even lifetime membership to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center can be yours! But even one dollar helps get a vital training apparatus from the Space Shuttle Program to a worthy retirement home.
Head on over to the indiegogo page and have a look!
The Brooks running shoe company also has a contest going.
In a recent blog post, epically titled This One Time at Space Camp…,
To be eligible to receive a trip for two to Space Camp, “All you have to do is snap a picture of the Transcends and share it on Instagram. Tag it with #runtranscend and mention @brooksrunning between now and the end of the month to enter. Just make sure the photo includes the Transcend shoe(s)…If you take the most creative, unique and transcendent photo, we’ll send you and a pal to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.”
Full rules and details, along with current entries, can be found over at the #runtranscend to win page.
Photos on instragram with the #runtranscend tag can be viewed here as well.
With an MSRP of $160.00, buying the shoes represents a serious investment! Having a look through the entries thus far, many of the backgrounds look suspiciously like they were taken in shoe stores. A way around the price of entry, perhaps, but your odds will no doubt be helped if you can do something a bit more unique.
Good luck!
The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is set to receive nearly a million dollars from NASA!
Over four years, the Space Center will receive $998,000 as part of a grant to help get more kids to pursue STEM careers.
From the article:
Deborah Barnhart, chief executive officer of the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, said the money will be used to develop an International Space Station exhibit called Space Station: Science in Orbit.
There’s quite a bit of great conversation going on in the HabForum right now about the early days of Space Camp.
And some great photos have been posted as well! I would be remiss if I did not point you to them specifically.
A great series of early Pathfinder photos have been posted in this thread…
And early photos from Space Camp are being posted and discussed right now over here.
And sometimes great Space Camp conversations happen elsewhere. One such case is a thread over in the collectSPACE forum, where members are discussing and trying to identify filming locations from our favorite opus from 1985, SpaceCamp.
There’s a new contest to win a trip to Space Camp!
Little Debbie, in promotion of their new “Cosmic Cupcakes”
Standard contest rules apply (you must be over 18 and a resident of the United States). On the upside, you can enter the contest once per day through its closing at the end of this month.
For more information, you can head on over to the landing page. And the official rules are right here. To go directly to the entry form, click on the image below.
Good luck!
If you can stay awake long enough after the annual dose of Tryptophan, Space Camp has a deal for you!
As in recent past years, they will be offering discounts on Space Camp programs.
New this year, adult programs will be given a discount as well!
Beginning at 12:01 am Central Standard Time on Friday, November 29, and running through Monday, December 2, Space Camp will offer the following discounts:
In recent years, this has been the only time to score discounted tuition to Space Camp. Take advantage!
