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  Mutant Reviewers from Hell do "SpaceCamp"
SpaceCamp was released a few months after that tragedy, which in a way was a public relations boost for NASA — a film where a space disaster was overcome with the help of several junior high school teens.
If you were a kid in that era, the clunky techno-look of SpaceCamp, Return of the Jedi and Back to the Future were the foundation of a geek’s growing love of sci-fi that felt like our society was on the edge of achieving.
SpaceCamp was scheduled to be released in early 1986 but on January 28 the real-life shuttle Challenger exploded.
www.mutantreviewers.com /rspacecamp.html   (1397 words)

  
 Filmtracks: SpaceCamp (John Williams)
SpaceCamp: (John Williams) When anybody in the summer of 1986 thought about NASA and the American space shuttles, their memories would become fixed on the sight of the Challenger exploding tragically against a blue sky on a crisp morning earlier that year.
The remainder of his score is pleasing, although we've heard every element of the music rendered with better results in other works, on screen or in concert.
There are several outstanding moments in SpaceCamp, but a flat recording and lack of stylish performance are the ultimate downfall.
www.filmtracks.com /titles/spacecamp.html   (1176 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Spacecamp: Video: Harry Winer,Kate Capshaw,Lea Thompson,Kelly Preston,Larry B. Scott,Joaquin Phoenix,Tate ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SpaceCamp shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's Apollo 13--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case 13 represents the median age of those in danger.
Initially scheduled for a June release date the family movie "SpaceCamp" is pushed back into the doldrums of the fall, it seems the country is not able to stomach a movie that makes light of the dangers of space travel when the country is in the shadow of a real-life disaster.
SpaceCamp was scheduled to be released in early 1986 but on 28 January the real-life shuttle...
www.amazon.com /Spacecamp-Harry-Winer/dp/6302035376   (2117 words)

  
 SpaceCamp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SpaceCamp is a 1986 movie based on a book by Patrick Bailey and Larry B. Williams and inspired by the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.
Zach Bergstrom (Tom Skerritt) was the camp director and Andie's husband.
In the fictional SpaceCamp universe, he was one of the astronauts that walked on the Moon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SpaceCamp   (1003 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Space Camp: DVD: Kate Capshaw,Lea Thompson,Kelly Preston,Larry B. Scott,Joaquin Phoenix,Tate Donovan,Tom ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
SpaceCamp won't win any merit badges for script writing, acting, or direction but it's got the right li'l Camp NASA spirit.
Yet all that changed on Jan. 28, 1986 when the United States (along with the rest of the world) is rocked by the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.
This was highly unfortunate and the lack of box office has meant that this movie has been mostly forgotten.
www.amazon.com /Space-Camp-Kate-Capshaw/dp/B00015HVM4   (1894 words)

  
 SpaceCamp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However, the standout of the entire album has to be 'SpaceCamp', the self-titled concert suite-style cue in which Williams gives his themes the most beautiful, most lush and most moving treatment imaginable.
As was mentioned at the beginning of this review, SpaceCamp is incredibly difficult to find.
There were only ever a few thousand of them printed, and a copy of this is likely to set you back around £100 at auction.
www.moviemusicuk.us /spaceccd.htm   (365 words)

  
 Spacecamp - Moviefone
Rating: PG Synopsis: This is an eerily prescient family adventure starring Kate Capshaw as Andie, a frustrated NASA astronaut who's never actually been into outer space.
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