TROOP/CREW 179
SPACE EXPLORATION CAMP
May 17, 18 & 19, 2023
Camp Kiwanis, Frankenmuth, Michigan

As NASA returns to Manned Missions to the Moon in November 2024 we will spend the month talking about the history and future of Space Exploration. Space enthusiasts, former 179 Assistant Scoutmaster, and President of Michigan Team 1Rocketry Club, will attend meetings and work with the Scouts as we prepare for the camp. For our May Camp we will travel to Frankenmuth, MI and stay at Camp Kiwanis. Our Main activity will be to attend the Michigan Team 1 Launch at the Alkay Airport - 51G in Clio, MI. The FAA has cleared air space for Launches up to 6,000 Feet (more than a mile). Scouts will see dozens of large rockets launch throughout the day. There is also Launch Pads where our Scouts can launch a Model Rocket made by themselves. We will also have plenty of other Space related activities at the Camp. This is not one to miss!

SCOUTING AND SPACE EXPLORATION: Scouts have been involved in Space Exploration since the beginning. Scouts have experienced what might Be considered the ultimate in high adventure. Roughly two-thirds of NASA’s career astronauts have been Scouts, resulting in most of NASA’s human space missions included at least one former Scout. Notably, 20 of the 24 men who flew to the Moon in 1968 to 1972 (on Apollo 8 and 10 to 17) had been Scouts, including 11 of the 12 men who walked on its surface.

EAGLE SCCOUTS: Forty-one of those selected as NASA’s career astronauts are Eagle Scouts. Some have become legends, like Neil Armstrong, the first man to land a spacecraft on another world, and Jim Lovell, the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission who led his crew safely back to Earth. That legacy continues today where Eagle Scouts fly high as crew members and commanders of the International Space Station (ISS). Eagle Scouts Raja Chari and Kjell Lindgren were furthermore selected as commanders of the SpaceX Crew-3 and Crew-4 missions, respectively.