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I'm currently on my usual post-Camp withdrawal, during which I seek out and soak up as much Camp-related material as possible. Here are some of the recent stories I've found:

As a family vacation, NASA's Space Camp is out there [LA Times]
Space Camp, what better way to celebrate a birthday [Hudson Star-Observer]
Octorara science teacher brims with ideas after 'Space Camp' [Intelligencer Journal] (with best Station photo I've ever seen)
Flying high at Space Camp [Island Packet]
Local teachers go to Space Camp [Your4State] (with reporting quality about what you'd expect from a website with such a name)
One tank getaway: U.S. Space & Rocket Center [NBC13] (with quotes from kids that must've been on Jeramy's team a few weeks ago)
Science teacher over the moon at Space Camp [Sioux City Journal]
Teacher wins Space Camp scholarship for student [Milford Daily News]
Spaceflight fantasy camp [Philly.com] (A rare AC story)
Kelly Anne Kroeger from Wilson School in Westfield participates in Honeywell Educators Program at Space Academy [Alternative Press] (what a headline!)

Most of the stories are about educators, since they recently finished their camp. It was cool to learn that the Right Stuff winner also gets a scholarship for a student.

I get a kick out of some of the stuff that gets reported incorrectly, such as refering to the MAT as "the gyroscope" or reporting that participants tried their hand at "extracting iron" ('Alright everybody, now we're going to head on over to the blast furnace...'). But it is fun to relive Camp from the perspective of an outsider, such as with the LA Times story which refered to the linens as "10-thread-count sheets"… and probably wasn't too far off.

"10-thread-count sheets"… and probably wasn't too far off.

I'm not sure they are that high a thread count.

We had a mother this week complain about the 'quality of the linens' and marched off to the mall for nice sheets for her daughter.

It's a camp, people. The camp I attended as a child didn't even provide sheets!

Hey at least they're warm enough to where you won't freeze in the hab. Although my room this year was strikingly similar to a convection oven for two days.

A neat story about a Russian 'space camp'… perhaps the start of a "Space Camp Race"?
Space camp gives schoolkids a taste of the cosmos

Benji wrote:A neat story about a Russian 'space camp'… perhaps the start of a "Space Camp Race"?

Wow!! They got to play with real cosmonaut training equipment in Sar City - how awesome is that?!?! I wish I were one of those Russian school kids. Lucky them!

That last article is interesting to me. Recently i purchased several old issues of Space Camp News from the late 80's 1987-1989 i hope to scan them at somepoint but havent had the time. Well anyway one had an article where Ed Buckbee who was the director of the space and rockent center and space camp at the time had visited the Soviet Union's version of space camp which sounds like what this is. At the time he was talking about trying to set up an exchange program of both campers and counselors. As far as i know this never happened but it would have been interesting. Glad to hear they still do this camp in Russia.

The real equipment is pretty cool. The station mock-up sounds like the disorientating Mir model that used to be at the USSRC. I think it's on loan to the Clinton library or something.

Neat story with an awesome picture of the Saturn V replica: AFSPC Reaches out to Space Camp Youth