I reported a few days ago there were changes coming to ASA…the new program outline can be read here.

They’ve changed the pilot track now…those in it will no longer be doing SCUBA. Instead, the pilots will go to Aviation Challenge for some additional training.

I think this makes a great deal of sense. While SCUBA is very fun, it doesn’t really fit in with the pilot track, but a few Aviation Challenge activities will very well, I’m sure.

Additionally, there are two “track-specific labs:”

• Space Piloting
• Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC)

The other two tracks look pretty much the same….there aren’t any highly-visible changes to them from the outline.

Also, ASA will again be 6 days long this summer, but 5 during the spring/fall.

Since there’s no time like the present, if you want to register now for next spring/summer, you can do so now at spacecamp.com!

Long time visitors to Hab1.com may remember that in July 2001, I posted that the Enterprise sim and it’s MOCR would be receiving renovations that fall….And then everyone that came back from camp told me nothing had been done!

Well, I’ve received word that Enterprise flight deck has just been gutted and the MOCR has been relocated.

It would seem that they’re really revamping things on the Training Center Floor, what with this as well as the other happenings posted here earlier.

On another note, I’ve also heard some rumblings of some coming changes to the ASA program for 2003, but nothing specific as of yet.

You really should think about actually applying!

If you’ve been to Space Camp’s website recently, you may have seen a message stating there are currently 200 counselor positions available.

…I waited a few days to see if it would change to 20 or something, but it hasn’t, and I guess there are indeed 200 available positions just waiting to be filled.

So if you think you have what it takes, why not apply?!

This just in!

The Training Center Floor is currently undergoing some pretty major changes!

Check out the pictures…notice any changes?

(highlight below for the answer)

Well, Columbia simulator has been completely dismantled (hence it’s not in these pictures anymore) and the Atlantis simulator has been rotated. Why, you may ask…well, that indeed is a very good question!

As no one around here, myself included, was really sure the fate of Space Camp Florida after the foreclosure of the Astronaut Hall of Fame and Space Camp Florida, I thought I would post an article I came across that pretty much spells it out.

Space Camp Florida is dead.

Published yesterday in the Sun-Sentinel, this article cites a young girl’s efforts to save it (She wrote to Jeb and George Bush!) as well as citing that when the Astronaut Hall of Fame was purchased, “Space Camp Florida was not spared.”

*sigh*…And then there was one.

An article in the Washington Post last week indicated that the prospect of another Space Camp opening up were quite possible in Prince George’s County, Maryland.

The article cites a study currently underway to determine if a Space Camp there could be successful.

If approved, a Space Camp along with a new Space and Flight Center would be opened, and is estimated it could attract up to 90,000 visitors per year.

The article can be read online, and a website with a mockup of the proposed center can be found here.

Despite the recent troubles of Space Camp California and Space Camp Florida, officials in Maryland are confident their situation is quite different.

If it goes through, I truly hope so.

Meanwhile, it would appear as if a Space Camp in Korea has been approved! A story on that can be found here.