only five people who went to Space Camp ® became astronauts

iirc, my 7th or 8th grade class had a field trip to Space Camp but me and my friend got in some kind of tussle and I ripped his shirt and we had to stay behind!

I'm afraid that every time I see the phrase "Space Camp" I am hearing it to the tune of Peter Dinklage's "Space Pants."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XaeR3P7pf4

xp I got kicked out of marine biology camp for calling one of the campers a bitch but in my defense she was totally being a bitch

And you are now a marine biologist, right?

All of you people went to space camp? Wtf?

I loved that movie as a kid. No idea how many times I must have watched it but it was a lot.

i can swim

The cockpit scene(about 09:00 in) was, in hindsight, one of my formative cinematic experiences when I saw it in the theater at age 9 with friends & family. I would later quote lines from it when part of the cockpit crew of our own mission four years later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?=WX08F9JcJr8

Also, wow, this movie bombed harder than I remember, but helluva cast. Mr Jennifer Aniston, Ladies & Gentlemen!

would have been better if they did try to land in White Plains NY

I think you fail Space Camp and they don't let you be an astronaut if you do that.

https://gizmodo.com/5244564/confessions-of-a-space-camp-alum

We'd made it through the whole mission and were about to re-enter when our window of opportunity somehow closed, and we needed to pick a new landing site. The multiple choice options included White Plains and White Sands. White Plains. White Sands. They sound similar, right? I mean, I grew up in Indiana, so they were equally distant from my geographic frame of reference, and I was the product of the American education system, so I probably didn't even have a geographic frame of reference. I suggested that we go to White Plains. Stressed it, over the weak protests of my teammates. I was damn sure. I reasoned with them over the intercom: It was a plain, and if we were in trouble, hell, we'd at least be able to put this sucker down on flat land.

I was wrong. White Plains, being a densely populated NYC suburb, is not a good place to land the Space Shuttle. Not only that, it's in the wrong direction, if you miss your window over Florida. White Sands, New Mexico, all you Yeager fans surely know, is a fine place to crash land just about anything.