{"id":7830,"date":"2014-05-18T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7830"},"modified":"2014-05-18T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T19:40:42","slug":"space-camp-plans-major-upgrade-after-financial-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7830","title":{"rendered":"Space Camp plans major upgrade after financial recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The famous\u00a0Space Camp<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0US Space & Rocket Center<\/a>\u00a0in Huntsville, Alabama nearly went out of business in the late 1990s\u00a0when\u00a0a failed project to provide free camp stays\u00a0for fifth graders left it heavily in debt. After many years of working down that debt they are now in position to pursue a major modernization of their facility and programs:\u00a0U.S. Space & Rocket Center celebrates ‘watershed’ financial achievement, upgrade Space Camp facilities | AL.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glad to hear they are moving away from the out-of-date Space Shuttle-centric approach and will be including commercial spaceships in their programs:<\/p>\n

“I’m going to be upgrading the Space Camp training and simulation areas substantially to match what is in the runway of my Space Camp students. We’ve already got the Orion capsule and the return to the moon mission. We’ll be adding the Mars mission, we’ll be adding capturing an asteroid activities. We will add (SpaceX) Dragon. We will add (SNC) Dream Chaser. We will be adding all the commercial and next generation NASA vehicles and mission scenarios to the Space Camp training curriculum. It’s not going to be the same ol’ fly-the-shuttle anymore.”<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The famous\u00a0Space Camp\u00a0at the\u00a0US Space & Rocket Center\u00a0in Huntsville, Alabama nearly went out of business in the late 1990s\u00a0when\u00a0a failed project to provide free camp stays\u00a0for fifth graders left it heavily in debt. After many years of working down that debt they are now in position to pursue a major modernization of their facility and … Continue reading Space Camp plans major upgrade after financial recovery<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,42,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space-camps-hands-on-sims","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-22i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11163,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11163","url_meta":{"origin":7830,"position":0},"title":"Reach for the Stars: Rocketry contest winners to celebrate at Space Camp","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 7, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"An announcement from the\u00a0Reach for the Stars\u00a0program: Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition Winners to Celebrate at Space Camp In response to the nations call for more interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) activities \u2013 over 1000 kids across the nation participated in the ninth annual\u00a0Reach\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Contests and Games"","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"9th winners' collage sm b_top","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/9th-winners-collage-sm-b_top.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8266,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8266","url_meta":{"origin":7830,"position":1},"title":"“Maker Camp” virtual summer camp is now open","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0Maker Camp\u00a0opened today at\u00a0MAKE Google+: Maker Camp (from Google+ and MAKE Magazine) is back for the third annual six-week virtual summer camp for quirky tinkering, building and fun STEM projects. 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