Space Camp Video from 1986-1992

[rkolker]

I'm going to take short clips of video from my adventures at Space Camp with Enterprise Team between 1985-1996 and link them here.

First - Enterprise Team's first session in 1986, as covered by Channel 31 in Huntsville. I called us Enterprise Team because most of the team were friends from Star Trek fandom.

The video is grainy because we taped it from rabbit ears (ask your parents what those are) in the basement of the bubble.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RbRn8xPJUjA

[des]

Rich,
I know what Rabbit Ears are, but I thought they were for getting reception on a tv (I mean without cable or satellite). I love Star Trek btw.

BTW, do you or anybody else here remember a video that SC used to put out. I ran it not that long ago. It is maybe about 15 minutes long and includes highlights from SC, SA, ASA, Adult programs and the teacher program. It shows a little kid, who looks much too young for anything but Parent Child (which didn't exist) in a space suit.

Some of the activities were so outdated they weren't there when I went in 1989.

BTW, Rich, were you in the first Adult space camp?

--des

I'm going to take short clips of video from my adventures at Space Camp with Enterprise Team between 1985-1996 and link them here.

First - Enterprise Team's first session in 1986, as covered by Channel 31 in Huntsville. I called us Enterprise Team because most of the team were friends from Star Trek fandom.

The video is grainy because we taped it from rabbit ears (ask your parents what those are) in the basement of the bubble.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RbRn8xPJUjA

[rkolker]

Rich,
I know what Rabbit Ears are, but I thought they were for getting reception on a tv (I mean without cable or satellite). I love Star Trek btw.

BTW, Rich, were you in the first Adult space camp?

--des

We hooked up a set of rabbit ears to a VCR (it may have been Beta) in the basement of what is now Hab 2 and was then the bubble to record the local news. Technology was...different in those days.

I was in the first REGULAR adult session in the fall of 1985. There was a pilot session or two in the spring of 1985, which I missed because I had already booked a bus tour of Europe.

In one of those interesting ironies, one of my fellow campers was originally from Belgium, where as a child he remembered the V-2's flying over, and we got a presentation from Konrad Dannenberg, who had helped design those rockets (Konrad is still around, by the way).

[iheartspacecamp]

Rich,
I know what Rabbit Ears are, but I thought they were for getting reception on a tv (I mean without cable or satellite). I love Star Trek btw.

BTW, do you or anybody else here remember a video that SC used to put out. I ran it not that long ago. It is maybe about 15 minutes long and includes highlights from SC, SA, ASA, Adult programs and the teacher program. It shows a little kid, who looks much too young for anything but Parent Child (which didn't exist) in a space suit.

Some of the activities were so outdated they weren't there when I went in 1989.

BTW, Rich, were you in the first Adult space camp?

--des

I'm going to take short clips of video from my adventures at Space Camp with Enterprise Team between 1985-1996 and link them here.

First - Enterprise Team's first session in 1986, as covered by Channel 31 in Huntsville. I called us Enterprise Team because most of the team were friends from Star Trek fandom.

The video is grainy because we taped it from rabbit ears (ask your parents what those are) in the basement of the bubble.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=RbRn8xPJUjA

I think I remember the video! didnt they give it out for free if you wanted more info about SC? I'll have to dig around... I swear I have a video somewhere and i wonder if thats it!

[rkolker]

Here's a look at Space Camp's facilities in 1987 - the year the training floor opened. The bubble was still around. Pathfinder had just arrived and was sitting in the parking lot. They had started using Atlantis and OV-105 (now Enterprise), both which had started life as sets for the movie Space Camp.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=woxPhDzLwQk

[Vincent]

That video is GREAT! WOW! Really stunning footage. Long cuts...you can really soak in what Space Camp used to look like.

Thanks, Rich!

[des]

Wow! Things changed even from 1987 to 1989 with Pathfinder and the new hab.
Thanks Rich.

The little video wasn't free when I got it, but it might have been free at one point. I thought it was a bit of a rip off on the price but I have played it a lot.


--des

[rkolker]

More from 1986...

Here's what an EVA looked like back then. There were two tasks - building a tetrahedron, and repairing Hubble. This is some of the first of those, using three people.

It starts up with a special experiment the team arranged: "The Effect of Enhanced Radiation on Native American Seed Grains."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsmoDADNUu0

[Benji]

Too bad they didn't take your suggestion to continue that particular experiment on future flights.

[Richasi]

Here's what an EVA looked like back then. There were two tasks - building a tetrahedron, and repairing Hubble. This is some of the first of those, using three people.

Those were the EVAs my crew performed during my Space Academy, Level I session in 1991. Discovery performed the Tetrahedron and Atlantis performed the Hubble (I did that one - I was CMDR for Discovery so no EVA for me.)

[SpaceCanada]

Thank you for all the videos! It is really nice to see what Space Camp was like when it first started.

[rkolker]

Konrad Dannenberg is (because he's still around) one of the original Peenemunde group who came over and helped design rockets from the Redstone to the Saturn V. For many years he gave a lecture on propulsion for Space Camp, and in 1987, also gave us a walking tour of the rocket park. Here is a short segment of Konrad...and yes it's raining.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_izosAcnD6Y