The Dress Rehearsals of the Space Center's New Summer Camp Stories. Hyrum's New Mission has its Grand Opening on the Cassini! Welcome to a New Batch of Space Center Volunteers. This Week's Imaginairum Theater

 

  There is so much news at the start of the summer space camp season that it is difficult to keep up.  Today, I want to share a couple pictures I took on May 30th when the Space Center did a full scale test run of the new summer camp stories.  I believe every ship was testing a new mission, or testing an existing mission with changes.

      Because the Galileo was short a few crew members, I was asked to jump in and take a station for their mission test run.  I throughly enjoyed myself. Thank you Brylee and Alex for doing an excellent job.  In fact, I enjoyed it so much, I think I'll ask to be on a few more test runs as they pop up in the future.

     The missions went well except for a few hiccups in the Magellan, but that is exactly why you run test missions.  They give you the opportunity to make edits, changes, additions, and subtractions etc to deliver an outstanding mission to our campers.  A special shout out to the Falcon for having a set of impressive props.  I also want to give kudos to Nan for the authentic looking "very old" book she created for the Falcon's story.  What an awesome group of creative geniuses we work with at the Space Center.

The Cassini Tells Hyrum's New Mission "Songs of Stone" for the First Time to Campers

     Hyrum and the Cassini staff are happy to report a resounding success after telling Hyrum's new mission "Songs of Stone" for the first time to day campers on June 11.  

     If I remember correctly, Hyrum said that the mission went better than expected and with that said, he gave himself a hearty pat on the back with a "Good Job Hyrum," muttered under his breath.  

     "So, with one success under your belt, do you plan on writing another mission?" I asked. 

     "Not in the near future," he replied. "This mission writing takes too much time!"

Meet our New Voyager Club Volunteers at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center

     Tyler Weight is the head of the Space Center's Acting Department.  One of his favorite assignments as department head is to teach the Acting 101 workshop to new members of the Space Center's Voyager Club. These members are either brand new volunteers or in the process of completing the requirements to become a volunteer.

     Last week, Tyler taught a new group of Voyager Volunteers the act and science of Space Center acting.  Here they are on the Falcon bridge getting ready to do some improve.  With this new set of volunteers, the Space Center's volunteer corps is ready for a busy summer of camps and private missions.  

     

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