Adult Space Camp in Huntsville

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At Adult Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama, childhood dreams become reality. Dayvee suits up for simulated missions, launches rockets, meets a real NASA astronaut, and experiences astronaut training like the multi-axis trainer and a mission to Mars. From dorm life to graduation, this immersive weekend adventure offers a unique taste of astronaut life—no matter your age.

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00:00I'm in Huntsville, Alabama at adult space camp! Most people think of space camp you think about

00:11it for children and this is adult space camp and it's everything you would imagine it would be.

00:18First things first you register then you get your room assignment and then you get your space

00:23uniform and that's when it all becomes official. You have the option to sleep in dorms which they

00:29call habitat one and habitat two. Next is orientation. We met a real-life astronaut Don Thomas.

00:36So space is a really fun comfortable environment to be in. He had four missions in space and he told

00:41his wonderful story about simply chasing his dream. It took him four times to apply for NASA. Before our

00:49very first mission assignment we experienced the multi-axis trainer and that simulates us coming

00:56back into Earth's atmosphere and just spinning out of control. So it was extremely fun but if that

01:02really happened in life I don't think that would be as fun. We learned about what our mission would be

01:08and then we made rockets and that was quite interesting too. So there's 17 members in our

01:15team and our very first mission we were given assignments of what we would do and I was mission

01:22specialist one. We're going to start mission number one. It was actually the best assignment of all.

01:31I got to dress up in an actual astronaut suit the helmet and everything and I was assigned to fix

01:38the satellite so you can thank me that your direct tv works. It's 90 degrees here in hutsville

01:47Alabama for day two of space camp. It started off with the team photo which was so cool because

01:54we all just nerded out. We went and shot our rockets. Remember our rockets from the first day?

01:58We shot our rockets and it was so cool. Hard hats shoot those rockets to the sky. Mine failed terribly

02:05but it was just fun. It totally brought out the kid in me. After that we came back for our three

02:10our mission to Mars. Three, two, one. My role was SOCOM and what that means is that I was in charge of

02:21the team that was going in the capsule to Mars. Along the way we were thrown anomalies. Anomalies are

02:27just things that weren't really planned out and of course we all ended with graduation. Just a few days

02:33ago we all started off as just regular working American adults. People came from all over the country

02:40from California to Louisiana just to participate in this weekend. Not really knowing that much about

02:46what the weekend entailed and now we all left as real space camp graduates. Uniform and all.

03:02We've been cleared for landing.

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