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Nathilus posted:I used to guess that it was the government part of the equation that made everything take so god damned long. But now we have private companies launching and developing technolgy for launches, and they move just about as slow. Turns out its just a long, expensive process. My dad spent four years developing a new type of treadmill for astronauts on the ISS. It almost launched last year but the rocket blew up, destroying it. Even with all the plans and prototyping finished, he guessed it would still take a year or two to rebuild it because every single thing has to be spaceproofed and tested before it would be ready for launch.
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Nathilus posted:Edit: by the way, for those of you who went to the Huntsville one. Were you woken up with airhorns and super soakers or were my specific counsellors just dicks? That poo poo was pure torture. Sound waves and H2O woke you up? Oh no! 
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Flagrant Abuse posted:I found out a few months ago that space camp for adults is a thing that exists and now I have a new life goal. MOM? MOM! PACK THE JNCO JEANS I'M GOING TO SPACE CAMP!!
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Nathilus posted:Edit: by the way, for those of you who went to the Huntsville one. Were you woken up with airhorns and super soakers or were my specific counsellors just dicks? That poo poo was pure torture. I don't recall anything like that.
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its HIM posted:I don't recall anything like that. Noted. My councilors were apparently just dicks.
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We did 2 shuttle missions. For the first, I was the Flight Director and got to "order" everyone around and it ruled. For the second, I was a Mission Specialist doing an experiment on the shuttle. I forgot to change the oxygen filters and nearly got us all killed. Whoopsie.
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I won a trip to the Alabama space camp by winning a required essay contest at school in fifth grade, and pitched a monstrous fit so I wouldn't have to go. I grew up in the closest town to the Kennedy Space Center (Titusville, pop. ~40k), where shuttle launches meant spending hours in traffic because of tourists, so I was jaded as gently caress about space and really didn't want to spend a week in Alabama with a bunch of nerds. Kinda hate myself for it now.  Everyone who went to the Florida space camp probably drove through my hometown.
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What is Space.....camp?!?
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Xun posted:What is It's a thing where on TV they make it look like it's straight-up astronaut training for YOU, a dumb kid. I can't actually remember what channel I was watching when the ads would come on, probably Nickelodeon. Anyway, like OP I assumed it was some kind of opulent star castle for super rich kids and never paid it much mind.
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Space Camp and Aviation Challenge alumnus here. Everything from the previous posts sound about right. I remember in the giant manual they give you there was a menu of space food. I don't remember many of the lectures but I remember the one about food. M&Ms had to be called "candy coated chocolate" so they didn't have to pay for the registered trademark usage. I don't remember doing two simulations but I do remember whatever job I had was in ground control and I had to scramble the chase planes when the shuttle was getting ready to land. We made Estes model rockets one day and we took our team photo in the display pit where a reproduction lunar lander was sitting. The moon-gravity chair, centrifuge, and multi-axis chair were all there. Aviation Challenge was more fun, maybe because I was older. It was military-themed. I remember I had two counselors. One of them wanted to be a sheriff or something and I had brought a catalog full of police/military gear and he borrowed it and never gave it back. We did some fun things like the water-ditch trainer and water survival stuff. The culmination was a large dogfight between the whole class in simulators. Guess who got Top Gun 
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