SpaceCamp Fest – Hall of Fame Induction for Class of 2016
Mark your calender… 14-16 July 2016. Come and join us to celebrate with the new Inductees and many, many alumni.
Hall of Fame represented on Space Camp Alumni Advancement Board – Andrea Hanson (Class of 2010): Vice-Chairman; Dottie Metcalf-Lindenberger (Class of 2007): Board Member; Burke Hare (Class of 2011): Hall of Fame Executive Director
Member Happenings
Georg von Tiesenhausen (Class of 2007)
- Turns 102 in May of 2016. He is currently writing a book about TIME.
Kate Rubins (Class of 2016)
Susanna Phillips (Class of 2015)
- A busy schedule in to coming months; singing La Bohème (Puccini) with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Roméo et Juliette (Gounod) at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Mahler and Vivier with St. Louis Symphony as well as other events.
Michelle Lucas (Class of 2014) has several Go for Launch events starting in June 2016.
Go For Launch! is a 3-day program (8 hours each day) that uses Space Exploration as a platform to launch student involvement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM), STEAM (Art), teamwork, communication and leadership. This program is created and presented by Higher Orbits, a non-profit, and was developed to reach high school-aged students but can easily be modified for middle school / junior high or collegiate aged groups as well.
Francis French (Class of 2010)
- Presenting at Spacefest 2016 June 9-12, 2016
Robert Pearlman (Class of 2009)
- Attending the opening of Space Center Houston’s Independence Plaza, featuring NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and the space shuttle mockup “Independence,” on Jan. 23
- Attending the rollout of Virgin Galactic’s second SpaceShipTwo at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California, Feb. 19.
- Covering the move of the final space shuttle external tank, ET-94, from the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana to the California Science Center in Los Angeles by way of barge through the Panama Canal in the Spring (exact dates to be announced).
- Attending the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, May 13-14.
- Speaking at Spacefest to be held at the Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, Arizona,June 9-12.
Francis French (Class of 2010)
- Speaking at Spacefest to be held at the Starr Pass Resort in Tucson, Arizona,June 9-12.
Ed Van Cise (Class of 2012)
- Lead Flight Director for the SpaceX CRS-9 cargo mission to ISS in the spring.
- Speaking at the Mainstream Conference in Perth and Melbourne, Australia, in March (http://mainstreamconf.com/
aus/east/) - Teaching a Human Spaceflight Operations course at Texas A&M this winter term
Jim Allan (Class of 2009)
- Presenting at 31st Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference in Sandiego, CA March 21 to March 26, 2016
- Attending Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS) at Space Camp from Sept. 24-29, 2016
Dan Oates (Class of 2007)
- Directing Space Camp for Interested Visually Impaired Students (SCIVIS) at Space Camp from Sept. 24-29, 2016
Kaya Tuncer (Class of 2014)
- Space Camp Turkey Continues its mission, now in its 16th year of operation.