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  Space Camp closes (January 11, 2002)
Space Camp California closed last Sunday, Jan. 6, but camp officials are still hoping to reopen later in the year, either with the help of corporate sponsorships or another company taking over the facility under license from Space Camp.
While other Space Camps in the country were down around 20 percent last year, Space Camp California was down about 30 percent due in part to the dot-com meltdown and other local factors like the energy crises.
When Space Camp decided to come to Mountain View in 1996, it was a major feather in the cap of the city, who lobbied for eight years to get the educational facility to move to town.
www.mv-voice.com /morgue/2002/2002_01_11.camp.html   (740 words)

  
 Space Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The backstory is that Andie has never made it into space and sees Kathryn as a younger model of herself, giving her an excuse to really push the girl.
Of course there is a lesson to be learned here about teamwork, especially once the kids are up in space with their lives at risk, but the fun for kids is imagining they too could accidentally be sent into space.
"Space Camp" takes itself much more seriously than most fantasies, especially in terms of the details regarding a shuttle that is not really ready for launch, which makes it easier to just sit back and go along for the ride.
sf.at-cha.com /movie/space-camp.html   (872 words)

  
 U.S. Space Camp
A space shuttle launch is only seconds away and mission control specialists attentively study their computer monitors as the shuttle crew braces.
After attending Space Camp, 87 percent of the respondents said they took more science courses, primarily in aerospace and engineering, and 80 percent said they were inspired to take more math, specifically calculus and algebra.
Some 41 percent of college majors said their experience at Space Camp was a key factor in their choice of curriculum; 87 percent chose engineering, math or science as their course of study.
gtalumni.org /Publications/techtopics/fall92/space.html   (1323 words)

  
 Space is Special
Space Is Special Inc. was founded in 1989 and since that time has served several thousand students in the Midwest.
Space Is Special is committed to motivating special needs and high-risk students to an interest in mathematics, science and technology by providing "hands-on/minds-on" learning experiences.
Space Is Special works with U.S. Space Camp to offer a special Space Academy Program in Huntsville, Alabama, in which the special needs students can participate with other student groups from all over the world in exciting space challenges.
www.spaceisspecial.org   (211 words)

  
 Space Camp Turkey
The goals of Space Camp Turkey are to excite and engage students in the fields of science and technology, and to motivate and provide professional development for them through the use of interactive activities.
Space Camp Turkey is licensed with the U.S. Space Camp Foundation, a privat, non-profit organization headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama.
Space Camp Turkey offers many different programs to fit your needs--week long and weekend program are available for both adult and children.
www.campchannel.com /camps/2349.html   (250 words)

  
 European Space Camp
Space Camp is a week-long summer camp for young scientists (17-20 years old) at Andøya Rocket Range in Northern Norway.
The subjects dealt with on Space Camp vary from the Northern Lights to rockets, satellite communication in space as well as astronaut traning.
Space Camp is a week-long summer camp for young scientists at Andøya Rocket Range in Northern Norway.
www.narom.no /index.cfm?d=398&aid=82   (336 words)

  
 NOT A HAPPY SPACE CAMPER.
Space Camp targets little kids at their earliest and most naïve, playing to their intellectual curiosity, placing them in the trusted hands of NASA, and transforming them into submissive, little-brotherly government minions.
Space Camp is the boot camp that breeds the legion of elite-level Republicans that will man the future forays into uncharted levels of big-government domination.
Space Camp could have been less transparently purposeful, more superficially beautiful, perhaps populated by a surprisingly complete retinue of now-adult B-list stars, anchored by the luscious Lea Thompson of Howard the Duck infamy.
www.blacktable.com /anderson041208.htm   (1465 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Alabama Space Camp Tries Again
Space Camp is too good of a program,'' saidLarry Capps, executive director of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center.
Space Camp in Florida is selling the Astronaut Hall ofFame at Titusville to Delaware North, the company that runs concessions for theKennedy Space Center.
Astrosociology is the study of astrosocial phenomena (social/cultural patterns related to space), a multidisciplinary field open to all scientists and engineers interested in "space and society" issues.
www.space.com /news/space_camp_020311.html   (768 words)

  
 Space Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Space Camp on Andøya Rocketrange was arranged for the first time in the summer of 1996.
The camp instantly became such a success that Space Camps have been arranged on Andøya in the North of Norway each summer since 1996, and will hopefully continue indefinitely.
The subjects dealt with on Space Camp vary from the Northern Light to rockets, launches and environmental research using satellite data and ozone balloons.
www.rocketrange.no /education/ls/Space/Campe.html   (494 words)

  
 Overview of Space Camp
Space Camp is a week long camp that takes place at the US Space and Rocket Center in Hunstville, Alabama.
At night the Spacedome Theater features space and science films, such as "Blue Planet" and "The Dream is Alive" which were filmed in space by astronauts, projected on a 67-foot dome screen.
Students may attend the programs at the U. Space and Rocket Center at any time during the year, but this special week is set aside due to the number of adaptations made for the students so they may fully enjoy the experience.
www.tsbvi.edu /space/scthinking.htm   (668 words)

  
 Space Camp Gets AeroBall
The movie portrayed a group of Space Camp teens who were accidentally launched into orbit on a shuttle.
Set in the summer camp tradition, kids are housed in dorm rooms with bunk beds by night and get to experience different activities during their days themed along the US Space program.
Parent/Child Space Camp is offered to parents and their children who can go through the same program together.
www.cgsd.com /AeroBall/spacecamp.htm   (755 words)

  
 Planet Slickers: Space Camp for Adults
Space Camp, in Huntsville, Ala., began in 1982 as a weeklong activity for grade-schoolers.
The center features a considerable array of space flight artifacts, including an outdoor "rocket park" with displays of vehicles ranging from the V-2 to the Saturn V to a full-size Space Shuttle, external tanks, solid boosters, and all.
The orbiters at Space Camp are named after actual or proposed vehicles; the Adult Space Academy uses "Enterprise." The Camp orbiters provide varying levels of fidelity to the actual vehicle.
www.avweb.com /news/places/183074-1.html   (3541 words)

  
 Space . Sky and Astronomy Information Center ... The Space Beat
James Oberg's Pioneering Space - Articles and research on the past, present, and future of the Russian and US space programs.The Mir and the International Space Station.
Space Jokes - Space and astronomy related jokes and songs.
Space News and Info - News stories, live tv, and real time tracking of launches, landings, sightings, new projects, scientific discoveries, commercial applications and news.
science.searchbeat.com /space.htm   (1893 words)

  
 Space Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I was part of Team "Triton." At Space Camp you're divided up into teams of 10 or so.
Space Camp is one week absolutely FILLED with activities, including a mock space shuttle mission on board the simulator in which yours truly was selected as shuttle commander.
There are several activities in which there aren't any pictures of, including MASTIF (Multiple Axes Space Test Inertia Flight), which is that three ringed thing you've seen that people sit in it and get spun around and around.
www.melissaofthesea.com /space_camp.htm   (261 words)

  
 Space Camp Helmet
A realistic astronaut space helmet for space camp participants that evokes the fundamental spirit of exploration.
A must-have for the enthusiast of manned space flight or for the space camp astronaut.
Our space suit helmets are lightweight, yet rugged for heavy duly play, however it is not intended for spaceflight or protective wear.
home.earthlink.net /~astro.orbit/id5.html   (603 words)

  
 Space Camp Turkey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Outer Space Adventure is a weekend program of non-stop activities exploring the past, present and future of manned space flight.
Trainees are immersed in hands-on training for a space shuttle mission, experiencing both shuttle and simulators.
The Outer Space Adventure is a structured educational adventure allowing students, educators and chaperones the opportunity to explore the largest interactive space education classroom in Turkey.
www.spacecampturkey.com /eng/prg_detail.php?pid=4   (113 words)

  
 Space Camp 2000 - DK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Space Camp 2000 - DK Space Camp 2000
Amazing Space is a set of web-based activities primarily designed for classroom use, but made available for all to enjoy.
Target launch and landing dates are based on Kennedy Space Center assessments.
www.tpj.dk /tj/2000/31SpaceCamp   (104 words)

  
 Space Camp Canada
Located in Montreal-Laval, Space Camp Canada is a modern facility with Nasa type simulators and replica of Endeavour.Space Camp provides opportunities for teamwork and experimentation in a unique hands-on approach.
A.B.Shepard said Space Camp Canada was the nicest Space Camp in the world.
The Space Camp program is also one certain way begin looking up at the sky and at scientific accomplisments with a new sense of curiosity and eagerness to learn, to open the books, to study...
www.campchannel.com /camps/2275.html   (265 words)

  
 Space Camp - Educational center related to space exploration for kids, teenagers, and young people
The aim of the Space Camp program is to promote achievements of Russian manned cosmonautics and space exploration.
It is also intended to induce the interest of the young generation (high school, colleges and university students) in aero-space professions, feasibility of studying at Russian Universities and Institutes, as well as in cosmonauts' training techniques and technologies on the premises of the Gagarin Russian State Scientific-Research and Test Center of Cosmonaut Training.
One of the main tasks of the Space Camp program is to facilitate cooperation with educational institutions in Russia and abroad in proliferation and mastering of acquired knowledge in a form of space-related quizzes, contests, scientific experiments, on line- and videoconferences.
www.atlasaerospace.net /eng/camp.htm   (364 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Breaking News | World's seventh space camp opens in Turkey
Carpenter and Akbay were joined by Ramazan Urgancioglu, deputy governor of Izmir, and Kaya Tuncer, president of the Aegean Free Zone and of Space Camp Turkey, in cutting the ribbon for the opening of the camp.
Space Camp Turkey, licensed with the U.S. Space Camp Foundation, is the only space camp in Turkey, the Middle East and southern Europe, and is currently open to only Turkish- and English speaking children.
Besides Space Camp Turkey, there are three space camps in the United States (in Alabama, Florida and California), and one each in Canada, Japan and Belgium.
www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0007/03spacecampturkey   (631 words)

  
 Space camp scholarships Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Space Camp Scholarships are great for when you're looking to get better at space camp scholarships for selfish purposes.
Each winner will attend a one-week Space Camp from June 29 – July 4, 2003, at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center here as part of the ASMDA award.
Space and Missile Defense Command, as winners of their 2004 ASMDA Space Camp scholarship contest.
space.6netstorm5.info /dallas-hotel-meeting-space/space-camp-scholarships.html   (280 words)

  
 Space Camp
Space Is Special has created a unique partnership with the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, to offer programs and opportunities to special needs students.
Space Is Special is in partnership with the U.S. Space Camp to offer a special Space Academy Program in which students can participate with other students from all over the world in exciting space challenges.
These students attend the Space Is Special program and a one-week session at Space Camp, as part of a group.
www.spaceisspecial.org /spacecamppage.htm   (165 words)

  
 Space Camp
Located in Huntsville, Alabama, Space Camp provides a wonderful experience for children all year long, but for one week in September, Space Camp is devoted to those with little or no vision.
Following is a dscription of 2003's Space Camp experience by one of the chaperones, Chris Clark.
For children who don’t have vision to see space, the moon, stars, rockets, etc., this was a very rare and unique opportunity to learn and experience things they could learn in no other way.
www.ufbvi.org /space.htm   (560 words)

  
 space camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This is a full regular Space Camp program packed into three days.
Plan to arrive at Space Camp in Huntsville by 11:00 am on Friday, March 19.
Space Camp medical forms must be turned in for each participant, signed by a doctor and the participant.
www.macomb.k12.mi.us /utica/inspire/inspiresite_010.htm   (240 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Space.com and U.S. Space Camp Join Forces
At a news conference at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Dr. Sally Ride, president of space.com and the first American woman in space, underscored the importance of the relationship between space.com, the U.S. SPACE CAMP Foundation and the Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission.
Under the terms of the agreement, space.com and Space Camp will have the opportunity to collaborate on a number of projects, including the development of space-related educational material; online question and answer sessions with astronauts; sponsored space contests and the design of interactive, customized space electronic-cards.
As the first concrete step in these collaborative efforts, Space Camp is sponsoring a weekly space quiz, which will appear in the kids section of space.com, and space.com is supplying information about Space Camp and its locations in its kids section of the site.
www.space.com /news/spacecamp_release.html   (519 words)

  
 Space Camp - Schools - The View from Ellicott City - Zip Publishing
After a bit of trial and error, and an enormous amount of adhesive produced from a hot glue gun, Kolluri and three other students finally figured out how to keep the solar panels at a desired angle of attachment to their project, named FAAR, which was short for Far Away AsteroidRendezvous.
The pseudo-machine was one of nine mock NASA DiscoveryMissions that 33 middle school students from across the state had designed and were in the process of building as participants in the Maryland Summer Center’s space science program.
And, perhaps most importantly, where to house the plutonium that will fuel the machine once in space (and which team member and Highland resident Joe Kolodrubetz reminds everyone must be stored in a metal container).
www.theviewnewspapers.com /article.asp?article=1701&paper=1&cat=199   (1160 words)

  
 Space Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
More than 220 sixth through ninth graders attended the camps, where they were instructed by a volunteer staff of teachers and counselors from around the state under the direction of Research Assistant Professor of Geophysics Neal Brown.
Many of the youths came to space camp from rural areas including Allakaket, Chalkyitsik, Circle, Dillingham, Galena, Glennallen, Huslia, Kaktovik, King Cove, Lake Minchumina, Sutton, and Tok.
Later, they'll practice these methods at one of the space camps for students.
www.gi.alaska.edu /Quarterly/1994/V12N3/camp.html   (292 words)

  
 Space Camp
Certainly, there are tons of things wrong about the movie that would never happen at Space Camp or in real life, but that's hollywood and that's what makes it fun.
And when this was made, Space Camp itself was a pipe dream for many kids and the lucky few who got to attend as youngsters were treated like Gods, and are still revered today, so this movie was a way for us poor folks to go to camp without forking out the bucks.
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www.elipsiselectronics.com /B00015HVM4/Space_Camp.html   (963 words)

  
 Parent/Child Space Camp 2001
This is our chance to ride the Space Shot, an elevator-on-steroids ride that simulates the launch of the Saturn V rocket.
The flight director had to talk the commander and pilot through several emergency procedures, the mission specialists had to assemble parts of the space station and the payload specialists had to do several experiments and record the results.
We learned all about the different kinds of food in space, how astronauts go to the bathroom in space, where they sleep, how they bathe and all kinds of other things.
www.bundlings.com /spacecamp.htm   (1880 words)

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