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Tag Archives: Space Camp
Dinosaurs & Heroes
Let’s travel back in time thousands of years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. They lived in harmony with the universe. They snacked on the leaves and trees around them. Suddenly a meteor tore through the atmosphere and changed the … Continue reading
Lookin for Adventure
This afternoon I left work at three o’clock and turned on the radio. Rather than listening to the talking heads on the radio, I flipped to the oldies station. The Steppenwolf song Born to Be Wild was on. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures
Tagged Kentucky, Mammoth Cave, NOVA, Space Camp
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Movie Night
Is it coincidence that in the same decade that the President of the United States was a former actor, the Hollywood studios put out many cult classics! In the eighties VHS movie rentals and microwave popcorn became the pop culture … Continue reading
Posted in Etc.
Tagged 80s Movies, Brat Pack, Breakfast Club, Dirty Dancing, E.T., Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goonies, Princess Bride, Red Dawn, Short Circuit, Space Camp, Stand By Me, Steel Magnolias, Top Gun, War Games
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Along the Trail
Today at Aviation Challenge we graduated our Mach 3 – Twelve Day trainees, campers that are so die hard they come back year after year. They survived our watered down version of SERE, flying F-15s into simulated combat, several bumps … Continue reading
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Tagged Aviation Challenge, Camp of the Rising Son, Delta State, Space Camp
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Sandwiches
Remember on “Friends” when Joey had one of his meatball sandwiches. And there was that time when Joey appeared to be protecting Chandler from gun shots. It turned out that Joey was only lunging to save his meatball sandwich. There … Continue reading
Dead Bird
Friday morning I visited Space Camp to check on graduation and such. I visited the Davidson Center, aka the building with the really big rocket! At that time I did not know that there was a moon walker on property. … Continue reading
Ode to the Raptor
Oh, how I love thee, let me count the ways… The Raptor is our camp van. It is a 1997 Ford Aerostar mini-van. It was originally Aviation Challenge California’s van before making the trek to Huntsville, Alabama. There are many … Continue reading
Training the Newbies
I thought about making a life rule about writing about work. It would have gone something like this, “Thou shalt not write about the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in the past, present, or future tense.” However, I did not … Continue reading
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In the winter of 2006 my friend Charity and I created a MySpace page for our mythical character Alumni Andi. The purpose of Alumni Andi was to drum up support for Space Camp’s 25th Anniversary. We were both alumni of … Continue reading