Space Camp News was the official newsletter of Space Camp & Space Academy from 1985 until at least 1995, when the publication mysteriously ended.

In its early form, the newsletter was printed on 8 1/2" x 11.0" paper and stapled together in the upper left-hand corner. Later issues were printed on tri-fold paper, approximately six pages in length cover to back (though some issues were smaller), and colorized.

Although a schedule of at least two issues per year in one of the four seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall) were followed, there were somtimes three issues per year. In later years, however, the publication schedule became erratic, producing "special editions" and other notations.

The following documents (in Adobe PDF format) are from my personal collection; however, they do not represent the entire run of the newsletter.

Produced yearly and mailed out to potential trainees and/or alumni alike, the Space Camp Application guide was the way to receive information about the Space Camp and Space Academy programs in the 1980's and 1990's. How else could you learn about the camp and/or apply to the program?

With the coming of the World Wide Web, Space Camp retired the printed application booklet - by 2004 - choosing instead to send out small post-card sized mailers or brochure sized pamphlets that directed potential trainees to its website www.spacecamp.com. It also digitzed the application guide book for ease in distribution and, no doubt, to save costs.

What I have here are scans of the guide books in my posession - from 1988 on - and the electronic copies of the guidebooks offered after the printed versions ceased to be created.

Through the years the US Space & Rocket Center and the Space Camp Foundation have printed and made available post cards to the public for purchase. And over the years I have collected a number of them.

Some were given to me, others I purchased on-site, whilst the rest I rescued from obsurity on eBay. As such you'll find these cards represent an array of history - and change - beginning with some of the first Camp structures in 1985 through to 2007.

Space Camp has been featured in a number of magazines, trade books, and newspapers since it's inception in 1982. Collected here are just a small number that I have in my collection...

An article from Boys' Life Magazine circa 1986 entitled "United States Space Camp" reviews the camp as it existed then. Starlog #108, from July 1986, contains two articles - one about Camp and one about the Movie. Starlog #109, from August 1986, also contains two articles: one about Camp itself, and an interview with Tom Skerritt who played Zach Bergstrom in the Movie. And a 1988 review of Space Camp as published in Odyssey Magazine, a space publication for kids.

Patches are an essential part of any space mission - every mission has one - and so the same rules apply for Space Camp. The following patches are those I have collected over the years representing the camp in general.

Some come from the Alabama campus (so noted), the Florida campus (also so noted), and even the short-lived California campus. Although there are many others - representing the international camps and other programs offered by the Alabama campus, I sadly do not have those.

The following items presented here are of a miscellaneous nature.

At present, as you can see, there's very little here. That's okay! As I find and re-discover interesting items from my collection that just don't fit into the categories above, they'll be posted here.