10 Out-of-This-World Facts About Space Camp

(via Mental Floss) Each year, kids fill their summer vacation days with songs, crafts, and outdoor activities at camp.  Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama is unique. Instead of canoeing and archery, young attendees get to ride spacecraft simulators, build robots, and program computers. It’s the closest young civilians can come to working for NASA. Space Camp welcomed its first aspiring astronauts in 1982, and since then, more than 900,000 campers have attended the program. Here are some more facts about Space Camp.