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Fry's Electronics Space Shuttle

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I stumbled across this while working on some products for Fry's Electronics stores:

http://pillownaut.blogspot.com/2012/02/ ... uttle.html

Their stores have a theme, and the Fry's in Anaheim, CA has a space theme. Immediately upon seeing their shuttle flight deck mockup, I wondered if it came from Space Camp California? Anyone know the story?

On a side note, it would be interesting to know where the assets from Space Camp California and Space Camp Florida ended up...
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I cant say 100% it did not come from space camp California but from the photos of the old camp i've seen i can say with about 99.9999999999% certanty it did not. All of the pictures i've seen of the simulators used in California were much larger forward section mockups similar to the Intrepid simulator in Alabama. Florida from every picture i saw over the years also had similar ones to the Intrepid in Alabama. The one in that pictures isnt even close.
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Hotdog wrote:it would be interesting to know where the assets from Space Camp California and Space Camp Florida ended up...
It would, indeed. I don't know for sure what all they had at either camp but you must wonder whatever happened to it all. I know that Space Camp Florida kept some things at the building now used for the Astronaut Hall of Fame. For example, the centrifuge. I rode the thing in September and afterward, a guy at the gift shop told me it was used for the camp and it had never left the building.
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