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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

Ah, Space Camp. I live in the Huntsvile area. It's already a thing. It costs $1200 per person if you go as a child by themselves (probably put into a random group or something), or $600 per person if you go with a school. I went as a 7th grader. God, this should be something significantly better than that. Space Camp was for fucking around and getting out of school for a week. I was really into space stuff, didn't learn anything. They shit on astrology, that was cool.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I give it two weeks for someone in the Trump administration to read about this and find some way to cancel a space camp that honors a black woman.

    Edit: the center is run by the state government... how can they find a way to squeeze them? Stay tuned.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ok but why not Sally Ride who's actually been to space?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Per Wikipedia:

    After the cancellation of Star Trek, Nichols volunteered her time in a special project with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency.[3] She began this work by making an affiliation between NASA and a company which she helped to run, Women in Motion.[47][48][49][50][51][52][53] The program was a success. Among those recruited were Dr. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, and United States Air Force Colonel Guion Bluford, the first African-American to go into space, as well as Dr. Judith Resnik and Dr. Ronald McNair, who both flew successful missions during the Space Shuttle program before their deaths in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.

    It turns out that the two are connected actually.

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