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Another future vacation -- one I've wanted for years. The date at the end of this year is soooo tempting -- if we get the bonus holiday PTO, I could swing the time, but probably not the money.

In the place I grew up, there was someone who sent two ninth graders, a boy and a girl, to SpaceCamp every year. Up through the year I was in 8th grade. I don't remember who sponsored it. I don't know why they stopped. I might not have been chosen if they hadn't -- but my chances were awfully high. And it's something I had wanted to do since I was 7 or 8 -- I grew up at the height of the

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<a href="http://www.spacecamp.com/spacecamp/advance_space_academy_al.asp">Another future vacation</a> -- one I've wanted for years. The date at the end of this year is soooo tempting -- if we get the bonus holiday PTO, I could swing the time, but probably not the money.
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In the place I grew up, there was someone who sent two ninth graders, a boy and a girl, to SpaceCamp every year. Up through the year I was in 8th grade. I don't remember who sponsored it. I don't know why they stopped. I might not have been chosen if they hadn't -- but my chances were awfully high. And it's something I had wanted to do since I was 7 or 8 -- I grew up at the height of the <a href"http://www.yac.org/yac/index.asp">"Young Astronauts"</a> marketing campaign. The logo was everywhere. Space wasn't just cool, it was attainable. Then Challenger happened, and the media emphasis shifted. I still wanted to go into space. But never quite badly enough to go the military route. I considered astrophysics, but all the colleges I looked at<a href="#note_1">[1]</a> were very quantum-oriented. I'd probably leap at the chance to work for NASA, even though my once-idealized image of it has lost much of it's romance. Chances are I won't get up there until space tourism becomes relatively affordable. And I can live with that. But I still want to go to SpaceCamp.

<a name="note_1">[1]My college selection is another story, and one I don't want to go into here. I'm happy with where I am now, but I could have had a much better college experience.

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[patgund.livejournal.com]

Umm.....ages 15-18. Damm. Pity, I would have loved to go there sometime. :-) Oh well....