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Renaissance Space Academy Proudly Introduces a New Flight Director and Three New Supervisors. And What About those Impressive New Shirts? Is this a Cool New Trend in Spacewear? Plus Imaginarium Theater

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Brad and Ethan Model the New Space Academy Supervisor Shirts     Paris fashion is all the rave but where does one go to see the newest in Spacewear fashion?   The answer is the Renaissance Space Academy. Today the Space Academy releases its new range of Supervisor (Grays), Flight Director (Reds), Instructor (Blues), and Director shirts (Whites).  Student apparel will be presented on The Troubadour next week.      Bracken Funk was the designer. Textile Team Outlet, long time supplier of fine Space Center Spacewear, took Bracken's designs and made them a reality.      We start by introducing you to the Academy's newest supervisors. Wearing the Gray signifies one has met the requirements to be awarded the rank of Level 1 at IIFX (second chair to you non-Voyagers). The Gray also signals the wearer is proficient in Space EdVentures philosophy and is competent in Bridge standards of operation.  Brad Smit...

The Great Space Race: The Finest Mission Ever Written and Told. Prove Me Wrong. From the Archives: How the Space Center Handled the Loss of the Shuttle Columbia Fifteen Years Ago. The Imaginarium.

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The Cast of the Space Center's Greatest Story Ever Told: The Great Space Race.  Summer of 1991 or 92. Left to Right: Paklid ?.  Cardassians: Lora Barnes Wirthlin and Steve Wall. Russell Smith, a member of my staff back in the day is behind Steve doing a typical Russell!  Curtis Kidd is the Klingon, Cliff Heath is the Ferengi and at the end, Marla Trowbridge.   The Great Space Race. The Greatest Story Ever Written and Told at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center      It was a cold, wintery Sunday evening in the early 1990s.  Dave Wall, Mark Daymont, Bill Schuler and I sat around Dave, Mark, and Bill's Salt Lake apartment chewing over a few story ideas for the Space Center's first true 5 day summer camp mission.  This mission was to be the best. A mission to showcase what the Voyager was capable of doing.  Slowing an idea began to take shape which became The Great Space Race.       Creating the m...