Camp Kennedy Space Center

Camp Kennedy Space Center^®

Camp KSC^® is a weeklong day camp experience with lifelong impact, launching kids into a galaxy of fun and learning! Kennedy Space Center, NASA's launch headquarters, specializes in STEM learning at its best, offering a week full of hands-on science, technology, engineering and math activities for students ages 7 through 16. The program centers on NASA-based science and engineering and will challenge campers with curriculum comprised of exciting and educational adventures that are catered to fit each age group.

Campers are divided into teams based on their age at the time of camp attendance.

• Pathfinder (ages 7-8)
• Spirit (ages 9-10)
• Opportunity (ages 11-12)
• Curiosity (ages 13-14)
• InSight (ages 15-16)

Camp KSC activities take place throughout Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, including the Astronaut Training Experience (ATX)^®, Mars Base 1, Apollo/Saturn V Center, Space Shuttle Atlantis^® and more. Each team participates in a variety of hands-on STEM challenges, labs and astronaut-training simulations designed specifically for their age group. Future space explorers will learn what it is like to live and work in space and will also have an opportunity to meet a veteran astronaut.

At the visitor complex, campers will dive into missions such as:

• Mars habitation operations to solve possible emergencies
• Spacewalk microgravity simulator, learning to work in a frictionless environment
• Simulated spaceflight from Kennedy Space Center to Mars
• Mars surface exploration using virtual reality
• Botany Lab vegetable growth and harvesting, sending data to real NASA scientists
• Mars rover robotics to optimize power for the Base
• Engineering builds, themed to each age group
• Hands-on STEM challenges
• Team building, communication and collaboration

Due to the instructional and participatory nature of Camp KSC, English fluency is a mandatory requirement to participate. For international groups, please see Camp KSC International programs.