Space Camp

I can’t say enough good things about Space Camp! My 7 year old son and I attended the 3 day family camp and had nonstop fun! Before we went I was wondering how my son’s attention span would hold up but he was genuinely interested in everything we were doing. From mission simulations to building and launching model rockets to learning how astronauts live in space, the whole weekend was so interesting! I want to include a few things in my review that I had questions about before going. - Families are assigned rooms in a dorm style facility onsite. There are bunkbeds and community bathrooms. If you don’t sleep well with noise or like community bathrooms (like me!) then I stayed at the Marriott hotel. It’s within walking distance to Space Camp so we didn’t even have to drive our car. - The days are long but so worth it! The days start early and you’re going from one event to the other. - You are fed breakfast, lunch and dinner in the cafeteria and the food is pretty good! They had a salad bar each day. - Our camp counselor, Rachel, was amazing! They work really hard and are with you the entire time. My son has already been asking when we can go back. I highly recommend!

Must visit location! My son has gone to space camping aviation challenge for several years in a row. The museum is also amazing Saturn 5 Rocket outside is seriously cool.

well it just kind of sucked. Food was processed and gross and also was so Hungry as there were only three meals a day with no snacks. Zero free time, no sleep. Instructors aren’t that nice. And isn’t even run by nasa. Thank you for reading

Drop-off and pick-up could be much more efficient. Counselors were basically useless at drop-off. Rather than being proactive and helping people find dorms that weren't labeled, they all just sat in the entrances to rooms chatting and blocking the way. My kid enjoyed it, but doesn't necessarily want to go back.

This is the 2nd year our child has attended Space Camp and his first year attending Aviation Challenge. They absolutely love this place, the kids has activities planned all day. Activities like ISS resupply missions, scuba diving, flight simulations and much much more. The team building aspect is on point. Considering it’s 6 days 5 nights with meals and lodging the cost is on point. If you have a child who likes space, or flying I would recommend they attend a week, they won’t forget it.

This is a great experience for kids but some kids take advantage of the system and go several times paid in full when some kids don’t get opportunities. I know someone that went twice because she was supposed to write the letter of why she should be chosen but mom wrote them. If kids are disabled using the system they should prove they are using it to advantage their lives not take advantage. I’m sick of some parents taking those opportunities away from kids that deserve a chance.

My kid just finished up a week there. Overall positive experience - but here's some things to think about: 1. I could not load money onto his wristband. I emailed them about this and they didn't get back to me for 4 days. 2. Their website is SUPER convoluted at times. Read the instructions carefully if you want to get stuff done. 3. Staff called be about something super minor that happened - but they felt the need to tell me. They were very professional. That was a definite plus in my book. 10 Year Old Feedback - 1. Food was ok. 2. People were nice. 3. Counselors were nice. 4. Had fun, but doesn't want to go again. Its pricey for what it is. It feels like its had its budgets cut in how slow things are to get done at times - which is sad. This used to be the camp that 10 year old me dreamed of....

My 10 year-old son really enjoyed space camp. However, I was very disturbed to see that the counselor that had been assigned to his group of 9 to 11-year-old boys and girls was a trans man. There were several trans men who were serving as camp counselors. They have one counselor for daytime and one for night time. I really think for the price you pay and for safety purposes, they could have two adults with each group at all times. I don’t really understand the logic behind this decision to place a trans man with young boys and girls who may be away from home for the first time. This made me, as a parent, very uncomfortable.

My granddaughter recently attended Aviation Challenge. Before the camp she was nervous about the food, and heights. She loved the camp. She said the food was good and she overcame her fear of heights. Her only complaint was that it was too hot. A splendid time was had by all.

Most disorganized disaster. we arrived at 12:15. They are so terrible that he's going to miss orientation even though it's not until 2pm and he' arrived 1.45 hours before the end of check in. Huge disappointment. For a kid on the spectrum this is awful and not worth the stress. Stay away

We attended the family space camp. If you don't want camp-like accommodations there is a hotel on the property. We were kept very busy so there was not much time in the habitat. My son enjoyed the missions and moon walk simulator. It is not cheap, so I would recommend it for families with kids who are interested in NASA.

First of all, it's the obvious #1 attraction in town. We became members to take guests, and that certainly helps with the overall price. Our membership lapsed, and this week, we had more visitors, and I was shocked at the disrepair everywhere. The Military exhibit was gone and replaced by a cheesy group of kids activities, many which were broken. The kids play area features a maze/slide activity but the main rocket ride is broken. There is construction everywhere. If you want the full experience, there is $30 admission, and 3 or 4 things that you would like to do that will run you an additional $50-$70 each. Think about that. $80 for admission, the Planetarium, and 3 short rides? This shouldn't be priced like Disneyworld! Let's face it. You are in Huntsville, you have to go, and the Davidson Center is great, and the docents are knowledgeable and helpful, but the value for the experience is not there right now. Someone needs to seriously rethink the pricing and get the place fixed up and things replaced. I was very disappointed with how rundown they have let this important attraction become.

Expensive. Abusive. Disorganized. We were given a 1 hour check-in window, & we arrived at the beginning of that time. We stood in line for 4 hours with no provisions for people like myself with physical disabilities. It was not ADA compliant, & when I asked the folks in the picture about their ADA provisions they had no response-mouths open no sound. There were no scooters available for someone who cannot stand longer than 30 minutes without legs going numb. As others have said, it appears teenagers are running the place, & it took three of them to figure out how I could get to the nurses office other than walking down stairs, which I can't physically do. (I asked about a ramp & they said-oh you can walk down the hill). I spent the next three days trying to get feeling back into my legs. The camp: My kids are not used to people screaming at them. (Their teachers LOVE them. Past teachers keep in touch, & current ones come out when I pick them up to tell me how well behaved & engaged they are. So they are not likely to be breaking rules, but they are typical active 10 year old boys). Based on the description my kids gave, after lots of questions, the staff -kids themselves- had no idea how to manage that age group. So they scream at them (staff names: Maddox & Rocko) & threaten them. The first night the boys texted me to say there was a boy that staff threatened who was crying uncontrollably. A few nights later one of my kids called me uncontrollably crying. He wasn't in trouble but said he was terrified because they kept screaming at them. Never in his 10+ years have I ever heard him cry like that. He kept saying "I can't keep doing this." It was disturbing. The boys said the girls dorms, showers, & treatment were better. I asked how they know that & they said the doors to dorms were open so you could see inside they also said the girls weren't threatened & screamed at). Apparently night one of sleep away can (probably a first for many of these elementary aged kids?, staff screamed if they heard anyone breath they would make sure the kids experience was "horrible." Got this report separately from both kids. In the morning (6:30) they woke to someone flickering the lights & yelling "get up. You have 10 minutes). With 5 sinks & toilets I'm not sure how 63 boys got up, used the bathroom, & brushed their teeth in 10 minutes. (Im sure they didn't-probably sniped brushing their teeth). I'm sure adults who compete the camp are not treated this way. They wouldn't tolerate it. So, if you are an adult or have a girl or maybe go as a group together, perhaps it's not so bad. There are reportedly 63 boys warehoused in one room with no supervision (see picture). There are only 4 showers, so of course the kids are loud & chaotic. Because of the boy to shower ratio they didn't have time to really use soap & shampoo-being timed -so they were greasy & stinky when I picked them up. Between the long check-in lines & overcrowded, understaffed environment & our experience visiting the museum prior to camp, (see below) it seems obvious they are in it for money. Maybe pre-COVID they weren't, but it's clear that's the only consideration now. If you go to the museum you pay to go in but cannot do any of the interactive things that usually are included in the admission fee at a museum, without paying for every one. (Go to the one in Waveland, Mississippi instead-soooo much better). My assessment: the camp is psychologically abusive for boys (I'm a 30+ year veteran Chid & Adolescent counselor & counseling professor), add a cost of $1500/kid (3k for my two) it's a lot to pay for your children to be abused. Don't send your young boys. Protect their mental health.

This camp is extremely crowded. Bunk areas look like a jail. Counselors did not seem trained well and at least one yelled at kids - which frightened my daughter. Save your money.

My two daughters are there right now. My youngest (11) is at space camp and is enjoying her time but not sleeping at night. She says there are 36 girls in a room and they are loud all night long. They just put 36 preteen girls in a room with no supervision. My oldest (13) is at space academy right now. She said the boys are wild and they are constantly getting everyone in trouble. They are using mass punishment for the entire group and not letting them do anything. I didn't pay the amount I paid for my daughter not to be able to do everything because of someone else's misbehaved children. They finish in two days, if I hear about more mass punishments preventing her from doing anything, I'll be requesting a refund. Also, my daughter said the chicken was undercooked and raw and three kids were vomiting after....I'm disappointed.

horrible instuctors below average food found a pile of cockroaches and beetles in our cabin and found a tooth with blood in my pillow

My son's first away-from-home camp. He called me after the first day just to tell me he missed me but was having the time of his life. He has a nickname, as does his new friend there. The drop off and registration process was great, and it made me feel good leaving him there. From a parent perspective, I highly recommend!

So far. The place is crowded. The bunks are v small. I'm concerned. But will post more after the week.

Amazing! I am a 13 year old that went here this past may and I had a BLAST!!! I was here for 3 days, which was plenty of time to do the fun activities. We woke up at 7:00 AM, went to the cafeteria to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner (the food was way better than I expected) but best of all were the activities! Simulations, a massive museum based around the Saturn V rocket, a planetarium, and even a few rides. If you are a parent that wants to take your kids to a camp, this is without a doubt the one I would recommend!

it was very fun and I had a great time but we only had three days to do all of our stuff so we had no rest time. the prices where so expensive and if you have type one diabetes like me, then no sodas out of vending machines. there was only one vending machine that had a coke zero. also the moonshot out side was fun. the multi axis trainer was amazing and scary at the same time. if you only go for the 3 day trip you can't do all the things like everyone else on the five day trip. but for the most part it was amazing

Before I begin my full, In depth review, I would like to say that I would 1000% do it again. This being said, its not perfect. I will get the cons out of the way first. The sleeping situation was a little bit hectic and i feel like could have been organized a little bit better but, they did a pretty good job keeping kids in order. The bathroom situation was similar to going to war because there were 20 showers for 100 boys. The crew trainers weren't super spesific with what they wanted on the first night but, after they got the confusion out of the way, things were pretty smooth (accept for the showers). Ngl, its not for everybody. You get an authentic military training expirence with drill sargents etc. It is a military camp and is run as such ( aviation challenge) so the drill Sargent are not going to talk to you like you are 2 ( as I see many other people complaining about saying its "abusive".). The programs are really hands on and you aren't thrown into any situations without prior knowlege on how to do said situation. I'm not going to say anything about the programs because that would spoil it :). It's made to have fun and its run by NASA and the Navy, so its authentic, and not for wusses. I refuse to let it be unsaid that this camp is great and everyone should do it at one point or another. (For context I'm a 15 yo dude)

Not what I expected. Rooms were small and very cold at night, food was bad, but as someone from New York, I can say it's probably something you expect from Huntsville. Some of the sheets had mold and we were told that if we went in the shower without slippers we would get foot fungus. I heard that it used to be better before but covid probably made them loose a lot of money. DONT GO.

The operations are very disorganized. Long check in, little to no communication. Seems to be run by teenagers. I got a call after 1 day from our son who explained he can't sleep at night because there are kids running around like a frat party. Bunks have upwards of 40 kids without supervision. It seems like they are struggling to hire quality people to lead the camps. I gave it 2 stars because from what I gather, there are some efforts into the actual learning piece. That being said, both my kids are asking to come home because they are bored and the sleeping conditions are so terrible. I will follow up once I pick up my kids.

Planned for a year and a half to send my daughter to space camp and she couldn't wait to go, she was going to meet up with a friend of hers that moved away. First they told her her and her friend cannot be in the same group and then they forgot to put her on a job during the main mission and she was forced to be added afterwards and they said because there were two girls with the same name. Kind of a lot of money to spend for them to forget a camper. Furthermore she said their camp leader was late every day. And the first day and a half was a lot of waiting around waiting for other teams to get done with something before they could join in. Just seemed very unorganized my daughter is a straight a student and I have to say it's dimmed her love for stem/steam that I hope she gets back

This is a review from a PARENT'S PERSPECTIVE. My son is still in the camp until tomorrow. We dropped him off last Sunday and I was surprised to find everything being run by teenagers. They are moderately organized. The rooms are small and in serious need of cleaning and new paint. The lockers were filthy. Honestly I felt like I was leaving my son in a boot camp for bad behavior-not a $1000 space camp. The only way to communicate with him is through "bunk notes", a paid service. You write a note through the app, and add a paid response. The staff then scans the note and presents it to your camper the next day. They write back, it gets scanned, then uploaded to the app. All very clunky and money driven. We paid $60 extra to get access to photos more quickly. As it is, they upload an entire batch of hundreds of photos. These are classified by activity, but includes all of the groups. So I have gone through at least 2000 photos trying to find images of our son. In 5 days they have posted only three sets of photos of our son. In other words, one photo per situation equals three photos total. And we have to pay for those! The face recognition software had chosen a few photos, though it also had a different boy listed as our son. I'm sure the experience will be good overall, but they could use some improvements most definitely. The graduation ceremony was excellent, so I have included that in my higher rating. That ceremony was very professional and engaging. Plus my son has been raving about how great camp was.

Our daughters attended Space Camp and Aviation Challenge (which was Top Gun) in the 90s. They each went 3-4 times. Our grandson went to Space Camp three years ago and then Aviation Challenge last year and this year. He loves going and looks forward to it every year. What a great experience. The graduation ceremony was really neat. Every camper was recognized. We spent time afterwards taking pictures of our grandson and his new friends. He can't wait until next year.

SOOOO much fun! I have wanted to go to space camp since I was a kid! So when asked if my son and I wanted to go with boy scouts of course I was in. So much cool stuff there. The museum itself is worth the drive. Getting to stay there and then continue the adventure was even better. The staff was awesome. Food was great and more than plentiful. All the training and lectures were on point. I hope the scouts go again next year!

This is a post in the making. My 2 older kids are here for the week. The check in was super super long and I just know that now that we have a rover on Mars they can make the check in more efficient (think a winding long line outside of the building and once you get in you go through lanes of lines). You're waiting to get your child's picture taken for ID purposes and for a wristband. You then rush your kid to their room, make their beds and they're off to orientation. The rooms are packed. I wish they would bot pack so many kids in such a small space. They have a small locker for valuables and as far as their bags there is no place to put them except against a wall of you can find space or at the foot of the bunk. The beds are not high enough off the ground for bags to go under. The other things that I do NOT like is this: to communicate with your camper, ie to send a message to them you have to pay at least 15 per camper. They try to get you to upgrade for other things. Basically they nickel and dime you to send messages to your kids, get access to pics etc. This is in addition to the money you load on their wrist bands for them to purchase things during the week and that is of course in addition to the weekly camp fee. I am praying my kids have a wonderful time. I do wish that there was not as much monetization of the process. Update to come after we grab them. Overall I am excited as this is a place I just dreamed about attending when I was a kid

Very disorganized. We stood in line for 2 hours to drop off our child. It was 95 degrees and no one could answer our questions. The camp has college students "running things" and they did not know what was going on. When I asked for who was in charge I got nothing. Pick up was not better. I received a call that my child was in sick bay and to come immediately. Upon arrival no one knew where my child was. I repeatedly asked if he was ok and someone take me to sick bay. After an hour I was escorted to sick bay. My child was very upset and stayed "I've been here for 3 hours" no one could tell me why. I again asked for someone in charge. I was told that I could speak to a supervisor on the phone because his office was not there. If you have a self sufficient child they should be fine but do not expect them to be cared for. Do not leave town, stay in the area just in case

AVIATON CHALLENGE MACH 1 is NOT WORTH BOTHERING WITH!!! I absolutely hate having to write this review as I really expected my son to have the time of his life at Aviation Camp which is an overnight camp that is around a week long. The advertisements show a lot of really cool things like a parachute simulation, helicopter crash simulation, water rescue simulation, rock climbing, adventure course, flight training, drone flying, etc. It looked so exciting. We even called the facility and the customer service line told us about the awesome things the kids would be doing in Aviation Challenge. So we signed my son up for Mach 1 Training Camp. We paid $1300 plus $250 for travel there and back. We assumed we were getting a premium camp since we paid a premium and all the you tube advertising and customer service told us about all the exciting activities. We were sadly mistaken. My son said it was the most boring camp he had ever been to and we paid 3 times the price we usually would to have my son completely bored. Here is what happened - After he was done with the camp, we realized there were 3 levels of camp. Mach 1, 2 and 3. We thought these Machs split the kids into different age groups, and did not realize each Mach had different activities. Apparently, the cool things like drone flying, parachute simulation, rock climbing, adventure course etc was only for the older kids in Mach 2 and/or Mach 3 and the younger kids were only given half the program that the older kids are given even though Mach 1 is the same price as Mach 2 and Mach 3. Customer Service will not tell you this. The Mach 1 kids did get to fly in the simulators but only for around 1 hour per day except the last day. They did get to do some water simulation exercises but only for around 1 hour on 1 day. The rest of the time they walked the kids around. This was 100 degree heat and they walked the kids around for hours per day without letting them in the water. The older kids got to go in the water more than 1 day, but the younger kids did not. What is worse, is this was a boot camp style camp where my 10 year old was forced to walk around for hours per day with his hands behind his back in 100 degree heat. These kids should have been able to swim in the water every day of camp. It doesn't cost the camp anything extra to let the kids cool off. Everyone has to walk with their hands behind their back in 100 degree heat. They were not allowed to talk and weirdly, their "patrol training" consisted of teaching the kids how to cross the street. My 10 year old has known how to cross a street since he was 5. I am very confused by this and these are not the adventure activities I was expecting. They also sat around in the dome a lot, not being allowed to speak or play around. They had to sit still and silent for the $1300 us parents shelled out. They did get to do a planetarium show, learn how to build a parachute tent and start a fire which was good but not worth $1300. Someone will spin your kid around in a barber shop looking chair to simulate G-Force. The Space camp kids got a centrifuge machine and the Aviation Challenge gets spun around in a chair. And making paper airplanes was also one of the activities. Again, not worth paying $1300 for this experience. I did try to contact the camp to get a refund and explained to them why I was disappointed. They denied me a refund because my son completed the camp, even though I didn't find out about the lack of activities until after he was done with the camp. They didn't even offer me a credit to send him again when he gets older and can go into Mach 2 or Mach 3 so he could do the activities that were advertised in the videos that we thought we were paying for. I am very disappointed and my advice to parents would be to not bother with Mach 1 as it is not worth paying the same amount as you would for Mach 2 or Mach 3. For Mach 2 and Mach 3, I would ask very specific questions like "How many times will my child do each activity for the specific Mach program requested and how long is each activity on each day?" "Can I get the itinerary for each day for the specific Mach program selected?" "How many times will my child be swimming or doing water activities during the week?" "What will my child be doing between activities and how long will they be doing it?" "Please give a very specific description of the activity and the equipment they will be using for each activity." Also, I would ask to talk to the program specific sales people as the regular customer service will give you general information about the Aviation program but what they tell you is not Mach specific. And I would look on the website and know the list they put on their page is not a list of some of the activities but it is a list of the only activities they will be doing and they may be walking or sitting the rest of the time. Just do your research extensively before you pay that much for this camp. Best of luck to you.

If I could give this negative stars I would. Management here is rigid about rules and policies they don't even follow. It's like they've never worked with children before, the way they approach education. Seriously the absolute worst experience. The kids hated it. The teachers hated. And I'm pretty sure the employees hated it too.

My daughter had an amazing time! She can't wait to go back next year and take part in the aviation challenge.

Allowed my child to be sexually harassed and bullied. Mistyped my phone number in their system and then blamed me when I didn't answer the call to the wrong number by saying they had two numbers on file for me. My son was very distraught and they chose not to investigate and told me that my son was not harassed. He was being sexually harassed and bullied at school and that carried into camp with the school. Refused to give me my money back and told me I was behaving erratic while I was only advocating for my son. Very cruel and would rather question my character and name-call than address their own issues.

It's space camp;) that says it all. If you have a junior in high school that would like to do this, then it is a must do. My son applied for the scholarship and won a week at advanced space camp. Everything was covered with the exception of airfare and jumpsuit. The staff was amazing they are very organized and the students learn a lot. We had the opportunity to meet Astronaut Don Thomas and one of the original builders of the rocket boosters. The children are required to have no contact with parents all week which teaches them independence like real astronauts. There are students from all around the world and the kids stay busy from sun up to sun down and you can attend graduation at the end of the week. If you aspire to help your kids to the stars or even to introduce them to a group environment, then this is the place to do it, they will LOVE IT!

my cousin and I walked through the pipe-like halls with our prison suits and wristband on, from then on we would be called Capricorn. I dropped off my Advil they didn't trust me to take, and my inhaler, and continued walking to the bright red door with a small window and a number above. Migraine girl sat on the top bunk in the right center of the room, her hands covering the frizzy hair on her head as she yelled at all her roommates to be quiet because her head hurt. Armpit slept just below her, but in misty Alabama, she got stankey really quick. Glitter, a camp counselor, roamed the halls sniffing all the new campers she passed as we were doing our mandatory wall sits against the curve walls. . On day 2, she made an announcement that she smelled a stinky camper and pulled out a stick threatening "the Alabamans know what this is for" and beat us if we didn't shower. On day 4 we made an excursion to a lake, skipping the only activity I looking forward to. at the lake, we were forced to fully submerge in the ice-cold water to scrub our pits because the armpit wore Toms unscented deodorant, and refused to admit she has stinky pit. Every day I tried to call my mommy but my cousin was being a phone hog so instead, everyday, I sat on my bed crying alongside a migraine girl.

UPDATE 2: My review seemingly got deleted. Luckily I had a backup copy. UPDATE 1: Monday morning at the office I got to talk to my colleagues, who are parents/aunts themselves, about my kid's experience at Space Camp... They raised good points that in spite of what had happened, my kid was still safe and had a great time. He learned a lot and enjoyed the experience of being "alone" for the first time (in camp, and in flying as well). I guess I can improve my rating to 3-stars, from ONE (1) STAR, then... ------ My son just came back from Space Camp. He's 11-years' old and sent him by himself, ie., unaccompanied minor with the airlines, early arrival, and transportation to/from the airport. As I talk to my son about the experience, just a few comments for now - - My son never got to wear the space suit in any activity. Why? I thought that was part of the activities at camp. - Purchased the full gallery access (which includes Bunk Notes) - photos are not being uploaded in a timely manner. My kid is already back from Space Camp and we still haven't gotten his team photo in the dashboard. - Oh, the bed/bunks are really hard and not comfortable to sleep in. Recommended to bring one's own bedding. - I don't know about the camp protocol here and don't know what training the counselors/guides were given but, when my son had arrived at Space Camp he had difficulty opening his luggage (forgot how to work the lock). He then had to wear the same set of clothes throughout camp. Didn't any counselor tried to check with him and identified if there was a problem? Or realized that he was wearing the same clothes throughout camp? As someone said in a previous review, "... if you have a self sufficient child they should be fine but do not expect them to be cared for..." Is this the Space Camp I have always wanted to go to when I was a kid myself?

TLDR: The harness safety equipment for Space Camp's Advanced Space Academy EVA mission is unsafe. The leg straps (made of VELCRO) fail repeatedly, and the trainers present at the time conceded this was an ongoing issue. However, when confronted with our concerns, Space Camp management has blatantly lied to me and my husband, going so far as to assert that the whole experience was "nominal." Full review: During training on Day 2, the leg harnesses snapped off twice with Trainer A. Trainer A told me that "this happens sometimes." Eventually, she got the harnesses to hold and sent me out, but I remained terrified, which made it nearly impossible to complete the mission. After training, Trainer A promised to talk to her manager to get better leg harnesses for the mission in the evening. My legs were literally shaking as I got out of the harness and clambered back down to the ground; I felt very scared because my safety had been at risk. Before the mission, I asked Trainer A, "Do I even want to ask about the status of the leg restraints?" She apologetically answered, "No." Then, the harness would not fit over the suit, resulting in bruises on my shoulders from Trainer B trying to get it working. I agreed to do a modified version on the fly; however, once again, the leg harnesses began to fail. I became very distressed, feeling terrified and unsafe. Trainer B was not comfortable using defective harnesses and instead had me walk out with Trainer A so I could still "participate." However, it was barely "participating"; I merely flicked a couple of switches from the ground. Trainer B told me the leg straps had failed on her personally and that management was aware of the issue. She promised to report the incident. Not wanting to ruin the rest of my weekend by reliving the trauma, my husband followed-up and spoke to Chris Myers, who told him our crew trainer had filed a report about the incident. I was unaware that our crew trainer even knew, as she was not present on the simulation floor at that time, so this was news to me. I then received a call from Robin Soprano. I explained what happened, but she kept insisting that the leg straps were "not a primary safety feature" and thus I was never "really" at risk. I explained that it had still caused emotional distress and physical injury, e.g., some "whiplash" and pain to my knees. She ignored me and repeated her talking points. She promised to follow-up but didn't, so my husband reached out again. My husband then spoke to Ms. Soprano and VP Tara Sweeney. VP Sweeney had spoken at our graduation and appeared to really care about Space Camp's reputation and participants. However, they spent the entirety of the phone call denying that ANY incident had occurred, denying that the straps were EVER faulty, and placing blame on us for not bringing this to her in person on graduation day (as though that were a rational thing to do). They denied that any reports had been filed, which directly contradicts Mr. Myers. They asserted the leg harnesses were never defective, which directly contradicts their own employees' admissions. Today, the CEO of Space Camp, Deborah Barnhart, replied to another follow-up email from my husband and fully denied that anything had gone wrong. She asserted that the equipment was completely safe and had never failed, that photographs bore this out, and that the whole experience had been nominal. This is a JOKE; I never even got to complete the actual mission, so there are no photos of me successfully completing the mission in a spacesuit. If you are going to Space Camp, I would seriously counsel you to NOT participate in the EVA harness position. Space Camp officials have shown blatant disregard for participant safety. They appear to care only about parroting a script and denying all issues, so if anything goes wrong with your mission, you will be out of luck. I had wanted to go to Space Camp since I was a young child, but when I got there, I just ended up bawling my eyes out as a grown adult because my safety had been compromised. Talk about broken dreams.

I was able to find a bunch of more photos from the inside of the space camp there are a lot more but I think these are enough that's pretty much says it all

Both my children attended this camp in August 2018. Once upon a time, this may have been a good camp, but it was a positively awful experience for my children. The camp is not well run and the kids spent most of the time sitting around waiting for management to get organized. The rules that they advise you of prior to camp are not enforced at all. For instance, my children were in a room with a number of children from Asia. These children's parents would call at all hours of the night due to the time difference and they would keep all the other kids up at night due to their conversations between midnight and 4 am. Nothing was done to address this so the kids do not get proper sleep and are exhausted for the entire week. My youngest was in tears by the time I picked her up at graduation due to shear exhaustion. Apparently, there are not enough American kids enrolling in this camp so the camp actively markets itself in China. As such, at least 40% of the camp is made up of children from Asia most of which do not speak any English. In my children's cabin, five out of the seven kids were from Asia and only one spoke English. The kids were expected to work as a team, but they didn't speak the same language so the American kids were simply excluded. It was ridiculous. When my kids asked to call me, the camp refused to allow contact, despite the fact that the Chinese kids talked to their parents every day. Apparently, they didn't want to deal with the complaints from American parents. When I did complain at the conclusion of the camp, the camp director assured me that the she was going to investigate and get back to me, but of course she didn't. I suggest that you attend this camp with caution, especially if your children are Asian American because it seemed like the Asian American kids (like mine) were targeted for housing with the Chinese nationals.

I have had two kids go to the Space Camp and one to Robotics. The camp has been such an amazing experience for both of them; almost the rite of passage from little kid to big kid. We can't wait for them to get to the age for Advanced Space Camp. One of my kids has a severe food allergy and I am so proud to say that the camp is VERY careful with food allergies- including wrist bands, special diets, and removing ALL peanuts and nuts from all prepared and for-sale food. I recommend this camp 150% and it has changed the lives of my kids.

Let me start off by saying I am a 5 time alumni, I have made countless friends and memories. This camp is fantastic for learning about space and other space related things. The food is so so but the crew trainers are excellent and answer every question.

My son though this was an ok camp. I hated it. We arrived late, because of the arrival time of our plane, missing the camp orientation. Nobody WANTED to give him some orientation or show him his room, where the group would meet!! The ones running the camp were lazy, would discuss in front of us that nobody wanted to take him to the room, I left feeling terribly insecure and bad about leaving my son to these people. I purchased a phone opened a contract and drove back and sent that to him together with a chocolate. He received my phone and my letter but NOT THE CHOCOLATE!! My son went with a backpack, with his clothes, phone, etc. to stay there for a week. At the second day, although he had a looker, all his belongings dissipated. He stood the full week w/o clothes to even get a clothes change. His new phone and his things all had name, my phone number and address, in labels, and nothing appeared ever again!. I did a form to report the missing items and never hear back from anybody. The camp is terribly badly run and has careless teens in charge of the kids, that don't care about the kids. However, I still gave it 2 stars because my son was still happy about the camp... However, he never again wanted to sing up for another camp... while other camps he has been super excited to go back...

Beware - camp states they will charge the balance for camp 60 days prior to the child going - NOT SO! They charged the balance 80+ days before - state they can refund but it can take up to a week. Also stated that they process payment once a month - DONT THINK SO!

This is a really great place to go if you just need somewhere to go! There is quite a bit of flaws though. I do not recommend staying over night there. Their mattresses are very hard. The showers are really tiny, and speaking of which there are only 4 in each girls bathroom. There are 2 bathrooms on the 4th floor. There is mold in the bathrooms. Overall the experience is very great, and educational.