Space Camp has just posted information regarding the 8 day ASA and Mach III programs online.
If you visit the website and click on the “Click for your Special Invitation – Alumni Only Special” at the top left corner, you’ll be taken to all of the information. Or you can just click here.
One thing listed though that was not previously announced is that the Christmas session (Dec. 27, 2004 – Jan. 3, 2005) will also feature these 24 Hour EDMs!
Besides the return of the 24 hour ASA EDM this summer, Aviation Challenge will also be holding special sessions.
The dates of the AC programs will be the same as the ASA 24 hour dates:
The prices will also be the same: $1149 if you book before March 15, $1299 if you don’t, and $300 extra if you’ve already booked an Early Bird special and wish to change to this program.
Also, just like the extended ASA session, AC will run 8 days and will include the following additions to an already outstanding military/aviation program:
These special Mach III sessions will only be open to those trainees that have completed a Mach I, Mach II or Mach III program.
As always, call 1-800-63-SPACE to register!
(partially, at least)
Space Camp will have several special sessions this summer for ASA where the Extended Duration Mission will be 24 hours instead of the now shortened six hour EDM’s.
Many moons ago, the EDMs were 24 hours long. Later, they were shortened to 12 hours. When the program was changed to Advanced Space Academy from Space Academy Level II, they were shortened to 6 hour missions.
The offering of 24 hour EDM’s again is definitely a step in the right direction!
If you’re interested in going, the weeks will be:
In addition to normal ASA sessions, for each of these weeks, there will be one team consisting of those that will be going on a 24 hour EDM. Camp will start on Saturday and go to the following Saturday. Graduation will be at 11am on Saturday. Mission Specialists flying in and out are asked not to fly out earlier than 3pm on Saturday (since the 24 hour EDM will have a SCUBA component for MS’s).
In addition to the 24 hour EDM, additional training and speakers will be provided.
To participate in one of these special sessions, you must previously have attended a Space Camp program.
With increased activity comes an increased cost. If you register for one of the 24 hour EDM sessions by March 15, it will cost $1149 (I believe the cost if you register after this date, provided there are any spots left, will be $1299).
If you previously signed up for a week under the $649 Early Bird Special and wish to change to one of these 24 hour EDM spots, it will cost an additional $300.
This is great! Hopefully, this will be available every year as an option.
(It was either that, or, “When Life Hands you Lemons…” You can decide which is the better title).
From Channel 19 in Huntsville comes a story of a kid who, despite being told “no” from his parents regarding sending him to camp, decided to go anyway.
Space Camp wasn’t a passing whim for Tyler. To pay for the trip, he set up a lemonade stand outside a neighborhood restaurant in his Maryland hometown.
Good work, Tyler!
If you happen to tune into USA’s broadcast of Apollo 13 on February 19 (at 7pm), you’re in for a familiar sight.
An article in the Huntsville Times last week reported that USA Network was down in Huntsville to tape segments for the show “Ready for the Weekend Movie.”
The segments were filmed around the Space Center and Space Camp facilities where some of the cast of Apollo 13 went to train before shooting the movie (one week before I arrived to Camp one year, I might add).
So tune in and enjoy!
Just a friendly reminder to reserve your session for Space Camp in 2004 before time runs out on Space Camp‘s amazing “Early Bird Special.”
Even if you’re not sure which week you want to go, register now and choose later! You can pick the session week you attend up to four weeks before you attend or by March 1, 2004 (whichever is sooner).
Hurry! You need to register before the New Year begins! For with the beginning of the New Year comes the end of this wonderfully fantastic deal!
I’ve recently come across a T-Shirt design that, unless in some way licensed from Space Camp, just can’t possibly be legal!
Granted, I am not a lawyer, but it just seems to look too much like the Space Camp logo to be a coincidence (3 stars and everything).
But, make of it what you will (or buy one yourself if you’re so inclined, I suppose).
If anyone has any additional info about the product’s legal status (or anything else of interest), please do send it my way.
Illinois resident Robin Rotman has just been named a Rhodes Scholar. One of 32 from the United States this year, Robin, a Space Camp graduate, will spend the next two to three years in England studying at Oxford.
Congratulations!
The Sun-Times article can be read here.
Space Camp is currently running a fantastic promotion on the price of tuition!
If you book a camp session before the end of this year for a weeklong camp starting before August 21, 2004, you’ll only pay $649 for tuition!
This is good for Space Camp, Academy, and Aviation Challenge programs.
Further details can be found here.
And now I offer the following advice:
Parents: I’d say you’re out of excuses! Send your child(ren) now!
Kids: Go show your parents this offer now!
USSRC: I’d be really, really happy if you would make this good for Adult ASA as well! Think of it as good will towards the great amount of money I’ll no doubt be spending to send my future progeny to your fine camps!
Well, I can’t believe it, but Hab1.com has just surpassed 20,000 hits to the homepage!
And it was only this past November that Hab1 reached 10,000 hits!
So, that’s the first 10,000 hits in 1 year, 9 months, and the second 10,000 hits in 9 months!
Whew!
