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The Space Center's Magellan Innovates with Crew Positions. Out with the Old. The USS Cassini Gets a New Mascot. Help Name It. News from the New Space Center at American Heritage School in American Fork. Nolan Welch's Test Mission on the Odyssey.Up Past My Bed Time. Imaginarium Theater

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Conner Larson briefing the Magellan's test flight with the new departments. The  crew was composed of Space Center staff and volunteers.            One of the Space Center's founding principles is Innovation.  The willingness to experiment, to try new ideas,  to stick one's neck out and do something no simulator has done before is my definition of innovation.  The day the simulators in the Space EdVenture fleet of ships (Voyager, Magellan, Cassini, Phoenix, Galileo, Falcon, Odyssey, Hyperion, Apollo, Artemis, Leo, Titan, Valiant, Everest, and Pathfinder) sit back on their laurels and just do things that way because that's the way it has always been done is the first day to a long slide into oblivion.  Sure, many things we try end up failing and many don't work as well as we'd hoped.  That's OK.  You learn something in every defeat.  Imagine where we'd be today if I stopped innovating shortly after I opened the Space C...

The First Space Center Honor's Night in the New Building. See Who Was Honored. Imaginarium Theater.

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  Space Center Honors Night. June 3, 2021      The Christa McAuliffe Space Center held its first Honors Night in the new building on June 3, 2021.  The event was held in the planetarium. All will agree that never has there been an Honor's Night in the Space Center's 30-year history held in a more luxurious setting; we're talking a 5-star venue. One would have expected spotlights in the parking lot and a red carpet illuminated by hundreds of flashes as the staff and volunteers arrived to learn who would receive what honor.  The tension in the air was noticeable as those assembled settled in their seats as the lights dimmed and Mr. James Porter approached the stand.       And as customary in events such as this, Mr. Porter stuck to a long-standing Space Center tradition and dealt with housekeeping issues before the Honors.  Of course, everyone who has ever volunteered or staffed the Space Center knows that "A Clean Ship is a Happy Shi...

The Voyager Club at Renaissance Academy Finishes the Covid School Year with Successful Flights. History is Made, A Report on the Christa McAuliffe Space Center's First Summer Camp in the New Building. Imaginarium Theater.

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  Good Morning Troops,      The Troubadour apologizes for the lack of recent updates from the Space EdVenturing World.  Mr. Williamson has been preoccupied with the closing of the school year and the start of the summer space camp season.       There is a lot to cover so let's get straight to business. Ryker and Jackson on a successful landing party. They are members of the Voyager Club's 7-8th Grade Flight Squadron The Voyager Club at Renaissance Academy Finishes the School Year with Successful Missions      We didn't know if we'd be able to operate a Voyager Club this year due to covid, but with the springtime easing of restrictions, the door opened and we got the ball rolling. Bracken Funk spent several weeks in the Starship Voyager getting it ready for the new mission.  Once the ship was ready, the invitation to join was issued.  We didn't know what kind of response we'd get with a part of the student body doing o...