space camp


i saw the the movie did they go into space for real or was just in the movie

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Of course they were really in space, silly! Didn't you know that this picture is a documentary? Lea Thompson's done a lot of documentaries: Caroline in the City, Back to the Future...

Star Wars is a documentary too. Why do all the special effects with computers, puppets and make-up when we can just fly in our magic spaceships to other planets and shoot the natural life forms we find. I remember the first time my mommy let me pet a wookie...

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Hey, can't forget about that documentary called Red Dawn either. Lea, Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, C Thomas Howell, Jennifer Grey and others, filled in for the main participants, of the invasion through Mexico, Central and South America.

Seriously now, no kids sit in the shuttle when there is a Flight Readiness Firing and never have. I don't think anyone sits in there during an FRF, whether kid or adult. The Space Camp is in Huntsville, Alabama at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center and the shuttle so far, has always attempted at least, to take off from the Kennedy Space Center.

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THANK YOU

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NO, they didn't really go into space, it's just a movie, they used a lot of special effects and stuff. It would be impossible for a bunch of kids to go up into space and know what they're doing and survive it. They were at the huntsville space camp in the simulators and stuff.

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"they used a lot of special effects"

'Not very special' effects in my copy of the DVD :).

"It would be impossible for a bunch of kids to go up into space and know what they're doing and survive it."

Actually, provided nothing serious went wrong they could do just that: the shuttle launch is automated, and most of the landing is automated... there are some buttons and switches they'd need to use at the right times, and a few computer commands to enter, but the hard part of flying the shuttle is knowing what to do when things go wrong, not when they go right.

That said, no-one has ever flown a fully-automated shuttle landing. But in theory the computer can handle it provided the crew lower the landing gear and extend the air data probes at the right times.

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'no-one has ever flown a fully-automated shuttle landing' - Apart from the Russians, whose 'Buran' shuttle was flown into space and recovered unmanned via control from the ground.

"Everybody in the WORLD, is bent"

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Huntville? I thought the film was at kennedy space center?

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There are two space camps. One in Huntsville, one near Kennedy, in Florida.

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The camp was in Alabama, but the "launch" was supposed to take place at Kennedy.

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