Yes, I do remember when the TC floor looked like that!

Hotdog · Post by **Hotdog** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:22 am

Yes, I do remember when the training center floor looked like that!

When I was 12, I somehow talked my parents into taking me to the Space & Rocket Center for a visit. I had been trying to convince them to send me to Space Camp for 3 years and with no luck. Then they saw the training center while on the visit and realized it was the real deal. Two months later, I found myself celebrating my 13th birthday at Space Camp! This would be the first of 4 trips to Space Camp programs before graduating high school.

Moral of the story: having an open training center visible to the public is a huge marketing goldmine if not the ultimate and cheapest publicity you can get!!!!!! Listen up, Mothership! Closing off the view of the training center floor was the worst thing you ever did, period.

CRS · Post by **CRS** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:10 pm

Though getting on the MCC won't be an option during tours, the top of the UAT is a stop on the new tour and will provide guests a great unique view of the floor and the new simulator without interrupting the mission experience for the trainees. We would love for you all to come down and take the tour and let us know what you think and give us any suggestions you might have to make it better. Thanks!

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SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:35 pm

I remember when it looked like that too! Ah yes, back in the day... that photo brings back good memories.

I never saw the TCF until I received the camp brochure in the post. But that's because I live way up here in a land where it's still cold and snowing in March. However, if I lived in or around Huntsville I know I would have been at Space Camp a whole lot more at a younger age if I had seen it from the museum side and begged and pleaded my parents to send me there. (At least, that's how I got to attend the summer space theme programmes at our local science centre every year, which was where I eventually found out about Space Camp.)

Hurrah for tours. Here's hoping it brings back the sparkle in some kids' eyes and nagging desire to attend camp.

Hotdog · Post by **Hotdog** » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:06 pm

When do the tours start? If I come down for the Fred Haise event next weekend, I'd like to check it out!

street · Post by **street** » Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:15 am

The tours are every day at 10 AM and 2 PM, and on weekends and as the season gets busier there will be tours more frequently. They take you up to the top of the UAT for the overlook of the floor and into the Hab for a view of a room as well as a peek at the simulators in the Astrotrek building.

The Hall of Fame display is now by the cafeteria at the 'back' entrance to the MCC floor. The star curtain has been raised and it allows visitors a look at the MCC floor, including the new lunar simulator.

Yes, it was nice to have the MCC floor visible at the grey steps, but isn't it nicer to have so many shuttle simulators and modules to accommodate more missions?

SpaceCanada · Post by **SpaceCanada** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:09 am

street wrote:Yes, it was nice to have the MCC floor visible at the grey steps, but isn't it nicer to have so many shuttle simulators and modules to accommodate more missions?

Yes, yes it is...

Post by **Vincent** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 11:16 pm

The premise is bad.

Kids on a mission don't care if they're on the MCC or in the Astrotrek building.

I think it would be far better to swap some of the sims with the Astrotrek building's sims and produce a more presentable MCC to passersby.

But the tour is an improvement.

Yes, I do remember when the TC floor looked like that!

Yes, I do remember when the TC floor looked like that!

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