When i went to AC in 1996 i arrived a day early. The sun was going down as i got their and right off the bus i ran into Kenn again who had been my counselor in 91. Now he was the transportation director for the camp. We went and got our linnens when went to eat a brown bag dinner. After dinner all o...

When i went to space Academy level 1 in 1993 the first day was verry short. My flight was a evening arival and was delayed by a rain storm over huntsville. I got to the space and rocket center in a drenching rain storm. We had been checked in and gotten our name tags and room assignents at the airpo...

Well since the first day of space camp can be exciting, fun and even frightning for some i thought it would be a good idea to let first time campers know what to expect on their first day. I thought we could talk about the first day of camp for each of the times we've gone and compare. When i went t...

The last year i went the room was actually comfortable but we realised the last night why. The vent in our room wasn't fully oppened. We did open it up a little more thankfully it was within reach of one of the upper bunks. It actually got warm in their a couple of nights.

I still like the multi axis trainer best. Although the first year i did it i wasnt feeling too hot afterwards but that was just bad scheduling. We ate lunch right before we went on it and for lunch that day we had chili dogs.

Well considering a tornado can be over in 30 seconds taking 30 minutes to get everyone in a shelter might not be too helpful.

i wont be going on opening day but i'm sure i will go to see the movie as well as the new Star Trek movie in december.

I cant say i had a bad counselor but i did have one that just tried too hard. We were her first group and she was a little too by the book compared to our night counselor that year.

Thje gulf coast gets huricanes but unless it was a major huricane It would probab;ly be pretty weak by the time it getsto Huntsville whivch is in northern Alabama. I wouldnt worry too much about huricanes Tornadoes on the other hand are another story. Huntsville does get some pretty servere thunders...

Geesh unitl you asked that i never realised just how many space related hbbies and activities i do compared to non space stuff. Non space stuff i enjoy is camping, fishing, reading, computers, the internet, and writting. I'm also an assistant scout master with the boy scouts, and a huge star Trek an...

The movie shows them in an area below the cafeteria in the museum. I dont know how acurate this is but i have noticed the door that the boys in the movie used to go to their sleeping area is still their so their is room under their i guess. And the movie may have been acurate in that regard. I'm rea...

The counsellors were definately great and they do love their jobs. I wish i could apply as a counselor but unfortunately recent medical problems limit my mobility and i wouldnt beable to do the job now. Too bad too since i now have the 2 years of college they require.

Definitely bring a beach towel. The ones they give you at camp are not adequate for anything. Especially if you go to AC where you spend alot of time in water activities. Also I recommend bringing a good pair of sunglasses not so much for space camp or academy but definately foir Aviation challenge....

If i remember right each sim session was an hour long and you had two sim sessions a day every day except the first one when you only had 1.

Like i said earlier the diffrent tracks use to wear diffrent colored flight suits. I know green was pilots i dont know which was orange and which was blue though unfortunately i never made it to academy level 2 i missed it by 1 year. If id gone in 97 i would have been one of the last to go to that p...

Thankfully our last dAY AT ADVANCED ACADEMY WE HAD BEUTIFUL WEATHER ALTHOUGH IT WAS IN THE MID TO UPPER 90'S. They took us to a park somewhere nearby where we had lunch that was after going to Marshall. And we had our graduation outside under Pathfinder. For some reason though that week we didnt do ...

I'll admit the movie has alot of problems with it bt their are some things realistic in it. The simulator they used for their camp mission is still their its the Discovery in the back of the training center. And some of the day to day stuff at camp is fairly realistic as to what its like at camp. Bu...

We didnt get alot of dogfight training wither but our mission also turned out to be a ground attack mission. And even though we did have counselors attack us in sims my pilot and i took out 2 counselors before being shot down ourselves.

The Mach 3 book i have doesnt have any survival stuff in it or atleast none that ive ever noticed and i think i've gone through the whole book. It was verry thin though but again we really didnt need anything else it seemed. half the time we really didnt use it.

When i was their in 96 we got a good survival training. We got shelter building, fire building, food procurement as well as water survival training. We got the lectures but we also got to do hands on stuff it was actually one of the more fun parts of the program.