Daily schedule for adult 3-day

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Daily schedule for adult 3-day

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People have asked about the 3-day adult camp schedule. Here's the one my team had:

FRIDAY
1:30 Program overview
2:00 Mission overview
2:30 Team photo
3:00 MCC tour/mission positions
3:30 Model rocket construction
5:00 Dinner
5:30 Shuttle anatomy
6:00 Alpha mission training
7:30 Space history highlights
9:00 Alpha mission
10:00 End of day

SATURDAY
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Bravo mission training
9:30: Bravo mission
11:00 Aviation challenge (Flight simulator and centrifuge)
12:00 Debrief
12:30 Mission patch
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Charlie mission training
2:30: Multi axis and 1/6th chair
3:30 Charlie mission
5:30 Dinner
6:00 Model rocket launch
7:00 Free time
8:00 End of day (As team Challenger we went to Otter's Bar at the Marriott and designed the team patch.)

SUNDAY
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Space bowl (trivia game against all the teams)
10:00 Space Junk IMAX movie
11:00 Graduation
(Graduation ended around noon. Those of us who didn't need to leave immediately wandered through the museum or had lunch. At 2 p.m. there was also a tour of the Marshall Center. Tickets were $12 and a bus left from the museum.)
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Lin wrote:People have asked about the 3-day adult camp schedule. Here's the one my team had:

FRIDAY
1:30 Program overview
2:00 Mission overview
2:30 Team photo
3:00 MCC tour/mission positions
3:30 Model rocket construction
5:00 Dinner
5:30 Shuttle anatomy
6:00 Alpha mission training
7:30 Space history highlights
9:00 Alpha mission
10:00 End of day

SATURDAY
7:30 Breakfast
8:00 Bravo mission training
9:30: Bravo mission
11:00 Aviation challenge (Flight simulator and centrifuge)
12:00 Debrief
12:30 Mission patch
1:00 Lunch
1:30 Charlie mission training
2:30: Multi axis and 1/6th chair
3:30 Charlie mission
5:30 Dinner
6:00 Model rocket launch
7:00 Free time
8:00 End of day (As team Challenger we went to Otter's Bar at the Marriott and designed the team patch.)

SUNDAY
8:00 Breakfast
9:00 Space bowl (trivia game against all the teams)
10:00 Space Junk IMAX movie
11:00 Graduation
(Graduation ended around noon. Those of us who didn't need to leave immediately wandered through the museum or had lunch. At 2 p.m. there was also a tour of the Marshall Center. Tickets were $12 and a bus left from the museum.)
Thanks so much Lin, you are so much help!!
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Happy to do it! Others here have been SO helpful to me, I'm glad to pass along a little help of my own. :D
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Steve wrote:Thanks so much Lin, you are so much help!!
Yep, what he said.
Now I think I have a much better grip on what to expect thanks to you, Lin!
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Awesome, thanks for posting the 3-day Adult itinerary, I have long wondered what it was like exactly.

How lucky the kids are to get the 5-day camps. It seems so much is crammed into the 3-day sessions that you have no time to digest it all.

One of the best things I got out of the Space Camp experience is the bonding with your teammates, and sense of family and comradship. That came after five or eight days of being with the same group of people on a team. Did you get that from a 3-day session? You do feel you made lasting friendships, or just acquainences?

Ahh, only one IMAX movie, and during the daytime? In my tenure, the IMAX movie was the entertainment reward you got at the end of a busy day. Marching through the museum after-hours like you owned the place, just you and your team, and having your pick of the seats in the Spacedome with your new best friends...that was one of those sweet little unexpected moments that aren't in the Space Camp brochure. The Sprocket after-hours was a time when both the kids and the counselors got to have a little extra fun, and everyone fed off the vibe. I can't imagine going back to Camp and not having this part of the experience.

That's cool that you got to do an ATO and go to Otters. Now there's something we didn't do as kids!

So what was the difference between your Alpha-Bravo-Charlie missions? Were they all Shuttle or did you do some Orion? Did your team win any awards? How did your patch turn out?

Sorry if I am asking too many questions. Living vicariously!
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