I saw this as a teen and of course it's the ultimate dream for a kid. But given this situation, they'd just abort on takeoff, and land at the primary alternate site, probably in Spain right after SRB seperation and never get into orbit. But it'd been a short movie if they'd done that (and of course, letting anyone other than the crew sitting on an engine test...)
@Treblaine The plan was to make it work on the lowest budget available to have a sustainable orbiter the goal was the moon and beyond a new space veihicle for the 20th century what it turned out to be was entirely different.
The money spent on retiling the underside and stocking it for longer orbits made the project defunct NASA simply ran out of money to sustain the project and it went the way of the Apollo program.... Its also based on public opinion.
As long as the public were "Up for it" the money poured in but as of late space really hasnt held the same charm for your average patriotic hillbillie as it did in say 1969 when the first Apollo mission launched.... So thus the money pool dried up as America focused on other endeavours and concerns...
How cool is this-that on the 25th anniversery of this movie the last ever real space shuttle mission would be the Atlantis, docking with a space station and making a touchdown at night. Farewell to all the space shuttles and remember. . . . . . . . . . . . . . GET-IN-THE-SEAT!!
Space shuttle program was the inspiration for the whole world.
I personally can congratulate the Americans of this great invention, which was the space shuttle program and regret that I must use the past tense and the word "was". I wonder why the U.S. government abandoned this program
You guys who leave comments are TRULY incredible. It's a movie, peeps. That means IT
S NOT REAL!!! IT'S MADE UP!!!! IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! IT'S MAKE BELIEVE!!!! Lighten up! This movie made my childhood. Wonderful score by John Williams, as well. You people made me laugh...sad, pathetic laughter...but laughter nonetheless.
@hb2578 Agreed! Overanalyzing a movie made for kids and teenagers is quite ridiculous. What fun would a movie be if they didn't break some of the rules?! Or make up some of their own?! Maybe some of you smarty pants should stick to documentaries! :) LOL.
Lol this is based on space camp from ths us space and rocket center in huntsville. Most kids in huntsville never been to space camp as its expensive as fuck. I grew up there and passed the center every day
magicaidf...you think that's the only technical issue this movie has? not even close...but you know what...we abandon that knowledge and have fun watching anyway because thats what fantasy is all about...I was so taken with this movie when I was a kid...there's a sentient handyman robot that somehow has the presence of mind to work in cahoots with an equally sentient computer in order to launch some kids into space and you're arguing about the booster thing?
The movie seems to think heat from the main engines would ignite the SRBs from the bottom if not for the SRB thermal curtains. It doesn't work that way. The solid fuel has a hollow space from top to bottom that is ignited from the top and burns from the center out. The thermal curtains actually protect the hydraulic power units that gimbal the SRB nozzle to vector the thrust.
good movie but just one question. if the heat shield on one of the boosters is failing? why would lighting the other and engaging a launch make any difference?
if its failing wont it continue to build up heat until it detonates like the challenger?
Actually the station has two robots-'Robonaut 2' which looks rather like a white C3-P0 but its called 'R2' and a camera droid that is just a floating sphere that looks alot like 'Jinx' in this movie. DOUBLE AWESOME.
How prophetic is this movie-on the 25th anniversery of it's release the very last space shuttle flight, schedualed for this June, will be the Atlantis docking with a space station that has a helper robot on board. AWESOME.
this movie was released 6 months after the challanger disaster i think the movie would have done better if they would have held back a little while longer but i still think its a good movie for all ages
@tehsticklord1 Didn’t go into flight service till 1981 but the Space Shuttle program was given the go ahead during the early 70’s. It will be shame to see it retire with the last program launch around February 2011. Well I hope launch for STS-133 Discovery is given go for launch towards the end of November 2010.
Did anybody noticed the fact that they do not set the pressure suits?
This is an exceptional example of arrogance, only after the tragedy of the Challenger astronauts began to wear pressure suits, previously thought that the space shuttle as it is unsinkable like "Titanic," moreover, the Russians presented a similar arrogance in relation to their Soyuz space capsule they come to their senses after the Soyuz 11 tragedy.
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence"
@PawelK198604 the actors are not wearing the sealed helmets or survival gear actually used but you're correct that shuttle astronauts did not wear pressure suits from STS-5 till STS-26. Even with an escape system there were few plausible failure scenarios where pressure suits would enable survival.
Hey, does anyone know how I can watch this whole movie online for free. Im far from home, out of the country... find myself missing the films from my childhood. and this whole movie isn't on youtube.
Just shown this to my kids (12 and 9) and where the kids were launched into space both of them had their mouths hung open. It takes a lot to get my kids attention on an older film, this one still has that magic :D Really gonna have to try and get a copy now, anyone got any suggestions?
THIS SUCK ASS FILM did so bad at the box office..it made a whopping 10 million...HELL it cost more to produce..John Williams music is brilliant..and IT IS the best part about the film.....Dumb idea. Poorly planned...
The Challenger exploded shortly after launch in 1986. That was the very reason this film tanked at the box-office. People were just not ready to see this film at the time,
How can I say that? Well, it being a HUGE hit on video might have something to do with it.
You don't like it? Fair enough, but please stop speaking out of your backside to do it. Thanks. The only thing you actually stated worth a damn is Williams' score is indeed brilliant.
@CheeseheadTanner IT was hated by critics and audiences...go look chump on rotten tomatoes and imdb...THIS film truly sucked balls...speaking of sucked balls...they put the token black gay boy in this terrible flick...& even NASA would not send teens into a shuttle...how fucking dumb on their parts...this film blows major chunks of any reality.
@UFOSPACE1999 No thanks. I don't need to be spoon feed on opinions I don't agree with nor care about, as your childish mind obviously is. You need to get out more buddy. Conversation over. Bye. ;-)
Would kids really be allowed to sit in the cockpit while the booster rockets are tested? If this happened in real life, I imagine NASA would be a laughing stock.
I was eight years old when this movie came out in theaters. It was instrumental in sparking my interest in space. After that I became a big fan of Star Trek, and other related areas of interest. If I could have one wish fulfilled before I die, it will be to see the Earth from orbit just once. I don't know if I'll ever have the money to pull it off, but it sure would be nice. Space Camp is a great movie and is a must have for any former child of the '80s.
i hate you i want to shoot you i did not know if it was cuz id never even heard about this and i knew robot and stuff wasnt real i was talking about if they were in a test in space they could have actually been in the test and had not gone to space i thought part of it was real you FUCKER!!!!! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!!!!!
i remeber this film coming out, queued for 2 hours to get a decent seat. and every time i watch the launch bit i get massive shivers, not from being scared, but the sheer awesomeness of a craft that big and that powerful roaring off the launchpad. I know they are getting old now, but we still need these craft.
@MadBiker77 So you’d only be 9 at the time of its release. I saw it a year after on VHS PAL Hi-Fi stereo. I did some checking and there was limited 70mm 6trcak DOLBY STEREO release of SpaceCamp the rest of the prints were 35mm optical DOLBY STEREO typeA. Do you remember the cinema and screen number where it played?
I think there should be new DVD release showcasing the 70mm 6channel DOLBY STEREO (in DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1) as present versions are only DOLBY STEREO 4.2.4 matrix. I have region2DVD which has good sub bass extension and bass mid that goes plenty loud on the JBL system.
@cubdukat Or maybe it was kiddie working at MGM who hasn’t heard of large format film called 70mm! The prints exits it was only down to laziness at MGM! I thought these people were in the film business?
It's a movie and I get the dramatic effect for the countdown, but I LOVE this movie...and I'm a huge Space Shuttle nerd. I hope Congress does extend the Shuttle program on a need-be basis. We need it. NASA doesn't have a final design for its replacement.
I don't care whether or not the events leading up to the the forced launch are accurate or not, MondoBeno is exactly right. This movie is what made me so interested in NASA and the space program and I'm sure has many ppl today going into the Astronaut Program.
Got this on region 2 DVD and the Kevin OConnell Dolby stereo 4:2:4 mix sounds okay it would be ten times better if it was six-track Dolby stereo that of the 70mm Road Show. The shuttles main engines rumbles nicely o the JBL sound system and JBL 4645 18 sub bass in sub bass extension mode. The Dolby stereo matrix mix on this clip rumbles!
Roger Ebert gave this movie a bad review, though I don't think it was all bad. The filmmakers obviously wanted to make something inspiring, and in a way it worked. This movie inspired lots of kids to want to be astronauts!
But this part irked a lot of viewers. They knew NASA would never let kids sit in the cockpit while the rockets are tested. With the Challenger disaster in America's collective memory, this movie needed a re-write.
You also have to remember that this came out in the summer of '86 - it was already fimed and edited when the Challenger disaster happened. I think the reason why it was released on time is to pay homage to the Challenger - although I do have to agree with what you say about kids in the shuttle during a main engine test.
@MondoBeno i think they did let children sit in the cockpit while the rockets were tested many times. it was safe because they would never let this happen. BUt I think NASA really did
If you click on my username or do a search for "Terminator Spacecamp" I just uploaded an original fun trailer remix! I'd appreciate any views or comments...
If you click on my username or do a search for "Terminator Spacecamp" I just uploaded an original fun trailer remix! I'd appreciate any views or comments...
yes i cant wait for this movie to be all dun downloading i cant wait ahahaha tobad i cant find russkies cudukat you no its a kids movie right and who cares its a great movie unlike slumdog millionaire and this win best picture rather see space camp bahahaha
And contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as a Thermal Curtain Failure during a test-firing sequence of the shuttle's main engines. If such an event were ever to happen IRL, their only chance to save those kids would have been to do exactly what happened in the movie. In other words, they would have had to initiate an auto-launch that would have sent that shuttle into orbit. I am however unaware of any event that has happened in the history of NASA in recent years since Challenger.
I always figured they would do a "Return to Pad Abort" where the shuttle burns out it's SRB's going at a higher angle of attack, and then flips over slowly to push its self pack towards the cape, drops the tank, and lands at the strip there. I remember reading about it somewhere.
To do so would be a futile maneuver during a Thermal Curtain Failure. Once launch sequence has begun there's no stopping it. The shuttle must achieve orbit or the shuttle will quite literally burn up in the planet's ionosphere before it ever reaches orbit. There is a popular theory floating around that in the Challenger disaster, they could have jettisoned the leaking booster and used the shuttle's main engines as a support to reach orbit, though that's just a theory.. unproven.
To MarcR2006: It wouldn't be a futile maneuver, it is an actual abort mode called Return To Launch Site or RTLS. There's also TAL, Transoceanic Abort Landing where they land in Europe or North Africa after crossing the Atlantic. You're right about Challenger though, once the SRBs light, you're commited to flight until they burn out.
Per wikipedia: "NASA has contingency plans to provide for a launch abort at any phase of the launch process, including the options of Return to Launch Site (RTLS), an East Coast Abort Landing (ECAL) Site, and three Space Shuttle Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) Sites (one in France, two in Spain[1], and until 2005, one at Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco[2])."
@jeromeyward It's called an RTLS, return to launch site abort. There are other options, including landing at a transatlantic site (TAL), or an abort to orbit (ATO).
Actually, Scientific, you are incorrect. They DO allow kids from Space Camp in Florida to train and sometimes sit in the shuttle cockpit when the shuttle is test-firing its main engines. And you were wrong about the Thermal Curtain situation on the Shuttle Challenger in 1986. The explosion that killed those 7 astronauts was not a Thermal Curtain failure.. it was a fuel leak in one of the main boosters that ignited the explosion thus killing those 7 astronauts.
And if you're hung up, as Roger Ebert was at the time, on the fact that NASA would never allow kids in a shuttle when the rockets were firing, etc., then you're forgetting that it's just a movie. It's a fun kid fantasy, really.
Dude, go to the space camp website, they do allow kids to sit in it when it is testing... It is called a test firing, they don't expect something like a launch to happen... Anyway, they even allow kids to help with actual launches sometimes...
Um, think you better do a little research. There's no way in hell they'd let some kids sit in the vehicle for an engine tests (FRF tests aren't even done anymore by the way). Do you really think they'd let kids sit on top of 500,000 gallons of highly explosive fuel?
Umm, mabe you should do yours. Look it up on NASA's website, or space camps website... And isn't that what they do with the people who are supposed to go up into space? LOL... Think before you speak... And yes, they do... Like I said, they also let them help with launches sometimes when there are launches... Whatever, you don't do your research, you just assume because your probably some adult dude who tries to think practically...
you mean NASA really was stupid enough to put children in the shuttle when they really were testing the boosters? OMG wow
THey are lucky nothing like this ever really happened. It would have been intereasting to see what the fallout would be if this movie really did happen
I was 11, and Lea Thompson, while not my first crush, became one in this movie. I credit this character, in part, with my being attracted only to beautiful women with a brain...
Yes, it is true, it happened during the challenger disaster, one of their boosters overheated...
As the movie explains, the thermal curtain failure is when one of the booster overheats, not usually in the way this movie portrays, but that way could happen to, but it ussually means death for the astronauts, the shuttle most indeffinatly explodes...
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10 hundred buck the matt meuller doing ring turns and bush killed you all and bragged and said they niggered this on purpose and thats why they will never do anything and connie the nigger is injecting thats why they all die... they all die and here is who did it. verify!
I've heard so many people complain about the subplot with the robot and call the movie childish junk, and say the only thing that redeems the film is William's score. I couldn't disagree more. Not only is the pacing and tension well done - I always hold my breath during the oxygen attachment scene no matter how often I've watched it - but the acting is top-notch, virtually flawless, not a misstep. The acting is what carries the movie. Great stuff.
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That it was, unfortunately neither the acting or John Williams' music was enough to overcome the fact that this was a mdeiocre movie at best that had the disadvantage of being released at the entirely wrong time.
Maybe Fox would have been better off if they sent it straight to video instead. Then again, I don't supposed that direct-to-video was an option in 1986.
LAUNCH US OR WE'RE GONNA EXPLODE!..best line...gets the adrenaline going!
KeithWasHere1 1 day ago
still got this on tape..great flick.
KeithWasHere1 1 day ago
This makes me want to play SSMS 2007 again :P
Eagle1Division2 1 week ago
hi6
the little boy is joaquin phoenix believe it or not
I watched this movie countless times as a kid...nothing fascinated me more than the nasa and the shuttle program
manifestgtr 2 weeks ago
the cutes person on this is the little boy he sweet
Hi675445 1 month ago
Would the film SpaceCamp; had it also been released in 2003 tanked due to the Space Shuttle Columbia Accident?
MrBennetzen 1 month ago
Amazing how everyone's hair still conforms to gravity.
mustang6172 2 months ago
@mustang6172 Magic of the 80's: Hairspray. Lots, of Hairspray
jtruns 1 month ago
If you'd believe it, ponies sent me.
LcplBronyUSMC 2 months ago 33
@LcplBronyUSMC Whaddya know, me too.
ClockwiseGear 2 months ago
@ClockwiseGear *brohoof*
LcplBronyUSMC 2 months ago
@LcplBronyUSMC Me too...
RockstarRacc00n 2 months ago
I saw this as a teen and of course it's the ultimate dream for a kid. But given this situation, they'd just abort on takeoff, and land at the primary alternate site, probably in Spain right after SRB seperation and never get into orbit. But it'd been a short movie if they'd done that (and of course, letting anyone other than the crew sitting on an engine test...)
Willysmb44 3 months ago
"Atlantis, abort RTLS"
MrApolloTom 4 months ago
What is this fantasy of sustainable orbital space shuttle?
I checked with NASA and they don't have any orbital capability in 2011, how could they have possibly had it back in the 1980's?
Treblaine 5 months ago
@Treblaine The plan was to make it work on the lowest budget available to have a sustainable orbiter the goal was the moon and beyond a new space veihicle for the 20th century what it turned out to be was entirely different.
The money spent on retiling the underside and stocking it for longer orbits made the project defunct NASA simply ran out of money to sustain the project and it went the way of the Apollo program.... Its also based on public opinion.
Hauntedman1 4 months ago
As long as the public were "Up for it" the money poured in but as of late space really hasnt held the same charm for your average patriotic hillbillie as it did in say 1969 when the first Apollo mission launched.... So thus the money pool dried up as America focused on other endeavours and concerns...
Hauntedman1 4 months ago
oh my god this movie is a steaming pile of dung. i want to take a baseball bat to that damn robot!
darthfurious80 6 months ago
How cool is this-that on the 25th anniversery of this movie the last ever real space shuttle mission would be the Atlantis, docking with a space station and making a touchdown at night. Farewell to all the space shuttles and remember. . . . . . . . . . . . . . GET-IN-THE-SEAT!!
darrenholcomb42 6 months ago
Good bye, space shuttle program. You inspired a generation of American kids and a great movie too.
kore7 6 months ago
@kore7
Space shuttle program was the inspiration for the whole world.
I personally can congratulate the Americans of this great invention, which was the space shuttle program and regret that I must use the past tense and the word "was". I wonder why the U.S. government abandoned this program
PawelK198604 1 month ago
You guys who leave comments are TRULY incredible. It's a movie, peeps. That means IT
S NOT REAL!!! IT'S MADE UP!!!! IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!! IT'S MAKE BELIEVE!!!! Lighten up! This movie made my childhood. Wonderful score by John Williams, as well. You people made me laugh...sad, pathetic laughter...but laughter nonetheless.
hb2578 6 months ago
@hb2578 Agreed! Overanalyzing a movie made for kids and teenagers is quite ridiculous. What fun would a movie be if they didn't break some of the rules?! Or make up some of their own?! Maybe some of you smarty pants should stick to documentaries! :) LOL.
cwrighta70 3 months ago
Godspeed, Atlantis. STS-135...one for the history books. :'-C
ShortyLongstrokin 6 months ago
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid. Do you have the full version?
rasmusa2821 6 months ago
had the space shuttle not exploded, this would now be remembered as one of the best 80's movies ever.
apologeticsman 7 months ago
Lol this is based on space camp from ths us space and rocket center in huntsville. Most kids in huntsville never been to space camp as its expensive as fuck. I grew up there and passed the center every day
oursedatedyouth 7 months ago
magicaidf...you think that's the only technical issue this movie has? not even close...but you know what...we abandon that knowledge and have fun watching anyway because thats what fantasy is all about...I was so taken with this movie when I was a kid...there's a sentient handyman robot that somehow has the presence of mind to work in cahoots with an equally sentient computer in order to launch some kids into space and you're arguing about the booster thing?
manifestgtr 7 months ago
The movie seems to think heat from the main engines would ignite the SRBs from the bottom if not for the SRB thermal curtains. It doesn't work that way. The solid fuel has a hollow space from top to bottom that is ignited from the top and burns from the center out. The thermal curtains actually protect the hydraulic power units that gimbal the SRB nozzle to vector the thrust.
MagicAlDF 7 months ago
good movie but just one question. if the heat shield on one of the boosters is failing? why would lighting the other and engaging a launch make any difference?
if its failing wont it continue to build up heat until it detonates like the challenger?
jessica5000000 7 months ago
This movie made logical sense to me when I was 7. Not so much anymore, lol.
DanD9969 8 months ago
rpick1954 what the HELL are you talking about. It's just a GOD DAMN movie for CHRISTS sake. get the FUCK over it. peace be with you.
darrenholcomb42 9 months ago
rofl)) their spacesuits and helmets looks so useless
triduza 10 months ago
It amazes me the language that was used in this movie, Useing God's name
in vain , and the slang use of Jesus Christ. sad for a movie that children would
watch.
rpick1954 10 months ago
@rpick1954 Sorry bucko, we don't live in a Taliban Theocracy. People can say whatever they goddamn please.
Silvergordikuki 8 months ago
I wish that could happen to me....*sigh*....
distruct0101 10 months ago
"GET-IN-THE-SEEEAAT!!!"
darrenholcomb42 10 months ago
Actually the station has two robots-'Robonaut 2' which looks rather like a white C3-P0 but its called 'R2' and a camera droid that is just a floating sphere that looks alot like 'Jinx' in this movie. DOUBLE AWESOME.
darrenholcomb42 10 months ago
How prophetic is this movie-on the 25th anniversery of it's release the very last space shuttle flight, schedualed for this June, will be the Atlantis docking with a space station that has a helper robot on board. AWESOME.
darrenholcomb42 10 months ago
Yea sorry. We just blasted your kids into space.
wbrober 11 months ago
this movie was released 6 months after the challanger disaster i think the movie would have done better if they would have held back a little while longer but i still think its a good movie for all ages
jbagnato1 11 months ago
Someone put a muzzle on that robot!!! He's out-of-khan-troll!!
nathaniel1960 1 year ago
IIRC the outside scenes were filmed from the 51-C launch.
EndeavourLaunch 1 year ago
Stay tuned for SPACE CAMP 2 THE INEVITABLE CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION
pattypopping 1 year ago
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MrDanielmichaels 1 year ago 16
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MrDanielmichaels 1 year ago
2:39 Damn bird! Get outta the way, shuttle's launching.
breadtacular 1 year ago
@breadtacular na, get it sucked into the engine
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MrDanielmichaels 1 year ago
Hey!! It's John Locke!
Doza130 1 year ago
BAD ROBOT
remaftp 1 year ago 3
LMAO @ 03:08 "DIE, MAX!"
Little bastard WAS the bane of that robot's existence!
QuartuvLarry 1 year ago
@tehsticklord1 Didn’t go into flight service till 1981 but the Space Shuttle program was given the go ahead during the early 70’s. It will be shame to see it retire with the last program launch around February 2011. Well I hope launch for STS-133 Discovery is given go for launch towards the end of November 2010.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
Limp Wristed Throw!!!!!
angryscowl 1 year ago
"Accidentally launched"??? What? Jinx totally did it on purpose. Terrible description.
robertorolfo 1 year ago
Because of SpaceShip Two, everyone in this movie unexpectedly has a chance to go to space in real life as they did in the movie.
dude58677 1 year ago
Just too fun! The "In Orbit" music is quite beautiful...Enjoy.
mbnyc2001 1 year ago
Is this a real movie? It looks funny
humtingify 1 year ago
Did anybody noticed the fact that they do not set the pressure suits?
This is an exceptional example of arrogance, only after the tragedy of the Challenger astronauts began to wear pressure suits, previously thought that the space shuttle as it is unsinkable like "Titanic," moreover, the Russians presented a similar arrogance in relation to their Soyuz space capsule they come to their senses after the Soyuz 11 tragedy.
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence"
PawelK198604 1 year ago
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Bebbs2923 1 year ago
@Bebbs2923
Russians also cut the cost and did not end well for them, saving money on the human factor is not a good solution both economically and morally.
PawelK198604 1 year ago
@PawelK198604 You tend to find that morals and the "men in grey suits" rarely see eye to eye.
Bebbs2923 1 year ago
@PawelK198604 the actors are not wearing the sealed helmets or survival gear actually used but you're correct that shuttle astronauts did not wear pressure suits from STS-5 till STS-26. Even with an escape system there were few plausible failure scenarios where pressure suits would enable survival.
MagicAlDF 7 months ago
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galegregory97comcast 1 year ago
Hey, does anyone know how I can watch this whole movie online for free. Im far from home, out of the country... find myself missing the films from my childhood. and this whole movie isn't on youtube.
umersgirl 1 year ago
@umersgirl
Netflix might have it on internet. They have a free 30 day trial period.
HARRYRABBITvmkname 1 year ago
5:53, Kate Capshaw swears!
AndrewTiffin 1 year ago
Just shown this to my kids (12 and 9) and where the kids were launched into space both of them had their mouths hung open. It takes a lot to get my kids attention on an older film, this one still has that magic :D Really gonna have to try and get a copy now, anyone got any suggestions?
Boudica1979 1 year ago
@Boudica1979
Find it on ebay. SEARCH (( SPACECAMP DVD ))
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THIS SUCK ASS FILM did so bad at the box office..it made a whopping 10 million...HELL it cost more to produce..John Williams music is brilliant..and IT IS the best part about the film.....Dumb idea. Poorly planned...
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 Spoken from the mouth of a fool.
The Challenger exploded shortly after launch in 1986. That was the very reason this film tanked at the box-office. People were just not ready to see this film at the time,
How can I say that? Well, it being a HUGE hit on video might have something to do with it.
You don't like it? Fair enough, but please stop speaking out of your backside to do it. Thanks. The only thing you actually stated worth a damn is Williams' score is indeed brilliant.
CheeseheadTanner 1 year ago 6
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@CheeseheadTanner IT was hated by critics and audiences...go look chump on rotten tomatoes and imdb...THIS film truly sucked balls...speaking of sucked balls...they put the token black gay boy in this terrible flick...& even NASA would not send teens into a shuttle...how fucking dumb on their parts...this film blows major chunks of any reality.
UFOSPACE1999 1 year ago
@UFOSPACE1999 No thanks. I don't need to be spoon feed on opinions I don't agree with nor care about, as your childish mind obviously is. You need to get out more buddy. Conversation over. Bye. ;-)
CheeseheadTanner 1 year ago 6
My god this brings back memories...
jamesthemod 1 year ago
Would kids really be allowed to sit in the cockpit while the booster rockets are tested? If this happened in real life, I imagine NASA would be a laughing stock.
MondoBeno 1 year ago
As a kid I loved this film.
Now I look at it and think its the lamest contribution to 80's cinema. What where they thinking?????
miniroll32 1 year ago
@miniroll32 I feel the same way about the He-Man cartoons.
juliabohemian 1 year ago
@miniroll32 If that's what you think, then you never really liked it in the first place. It was the 80's, man!
hb2578 6 months ago
Is that Joaquin Pheonix? So cute.
juliabohemian 1 year ago
@juliabohemian I guess gladiator in space wasn't the best idea
gopconservative78 1 year ago
Now ending up in the soyuz, that would be even more of an adventure XD
DanM25456 1 year ago
Anyone notice John Locke is in this scene
JonDGul 1 year ago
how could this movie convince you to look at nasa? i was always interested in space
Isuckatpaintball2 1 year ago
They must have had a hell of a budge to launch the shuttle special for this movie... Oh wait...
jschwind435 1 year ago
What was a "fun" movie had poor timing. It came out just a few monthst after the Challenger 51-L mission.
doginstine 1 year ago
Atlantis just today finished it's last ever flight after 25 years of service and 120 million miles of travel!
deconverts 1 year ago
@deconverts Rest in peace old girl
zombiesurfer1 1 year ago
what gives me the shivers is the first ever space shuttle launch..
space shuttle launch 1981
Wishbringer3 1 year ago
I was eight years old when this movie came out in theaters. It was instrumental in sparking my interest in space. After that I became a big fan of Star Trek, and other related areas of interest. If I could have one wish fulfilled before I die, it will be to see the Earth from orbit just once. I don't know if I'll ever have the money to pull it off, but it sure would be nice. Space Camp is a great movie and is a must have for any former child of the '80s.
Rjp4562 1 year ago
need another seven astronauts
DarkKnightBob1o1 1 year ago
message a cent pour cent le space camp de huntsville eh bien c est que le centre spatial d istanbul de turquie
18LEMONDEALENVERS 1 year ago
god i remember this shit from school.
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tdawg598 2 years ago
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i hate you i want to shoot you i did not know if it was cuz id never even heard about this and i knew robot and stuff wasnt real i was talking about if they were in a test in space they could have actually been in the test and had not gone to space i thought part of it was real you FUCKER!!!!! FUCK YOU FUCK YOU!!!!!!!
tdawg598 2 years ago
I so loved this movie when I was a kids and still LOVE it. So fun!
billybluenote 2 years ago
Did something like a thermal failure happen that destroyed the challanger?
I seem to remember something about a heat shield failing or an O ring
jasmine5000 2 years ago
Jinx: Max needs thermal curtain failure. Max and Jinx friends forever.
snootzie78 2 years ago
I still love this movie.
MrBlackBird09 2 years ago
oh no, not another thermal curtain malfunction....
roaristhesound 2 years ago
I've just ordered this dvd from Amazon.
CarlaLR74 2 years ago
I'm just sayin....greatest.summer.vacation.EVER!
mizearle32 2 years ago 3
i remeber this film coming out, queued for 2 hours to get a decent seat. and every time i watch the launch bit i get massive shivers, not from being scared, but the sheer awesomeness of a craft that big and that powerful roaring off the launchpad. I know they are getting old now, but we still need these craft.
MadBiker77 2 years ago 8
I know what you mean, I wait till my wife and kids are off somewhere, put in the DVD, turn the sound up, and watch it. It does give you the shivers!
jeromeyward 2 years ago 2
@MadBiker77 I've actually been to space camp before. It's awesome
zombiesurfer1 1 year ago
@MadBiker77 So you’d only be 9 at the time of its release. I saw it a year after on VHS PAL Hi-Fi stereo. I did some checking and there was limited 70mm 6trcak DOLBY STEREO release of SpaceCamp the rest of the prints were 35mm optical DOLBY STEREO typeA. Do you remember the cinema and screen number where it played?
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
I think there should be new DVD release showcasing the 70mm 6channel DOLBY STEREO (in DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1) as present versions are only DOLBY STEREO 4.2.4 matrix. I have region2DVD which has good sub bass extension and bass mid that goes plenty loud on the JBL system.
EmpireLS56KW 1 year ago
@EmpireLS56KW Somehow I suspect that probably won't happen. Given the cheap version MGM put out on DVD, we're probably lucky we got anything at all.
cubdukat 9 months ago
@cubdukat Or maybe it was kiddie working at MGM who hasn’t heard of large format film called 70mm! The prints exits it was only down to laziness at MGM! I thought these people were in the film business?
EmpireLS56KW 9 months ago
It's a movie and I get the dramatic effect for the countdown, but I LOVE this movie...and I'm a huge Space Shuttle nerd. I hope Congress does extend the Shuttle program on a need-be basis. We need it. NASA doesn't have a final design for its replacement.
jjlucash 2 years ago 2
LOVE THIS MOVIE
TheLoveyou33 2 years ago
this is my all time favorite movie :)
TBirdRaven 2 years ago
KATHRYN, GET IN YOUR SEAT!!!!!!!!!
I love that part.
snootzie78 2 years ago 2
Gives me shivers that part. Fantastic movie.
1981DMC 2 years ago
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The Shuttle had to spot at a gas station up in space then everybody farted
gopconservative78 2 years ago
I don't care whether or not the events leading up to the the forced launch are accurate or not, MondoBeno is exactly right. This movie is what made me so interested in NASA and the space program and I'm sure has many ppl today going into the Astronaut Program.
Waldorf1981 2 years ago 5
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garylouden81 2 years ago
As soon as saw this video I went and order this movie on amazon lol
ARMORC0RE 2 years ago
Got this on region 2 DVD and the Kevin OConnell Dolby stereo 4:2:4 mix sounds okay it would be ten times better if it was six-track Dolby stereo that of the 70mm Road Show. The shuttles main engines rumbles nicely o the JBL sound system and JBL 4645 18 sub bass in sub bass extension mode. The Dolby stereo matrix mix on this clip rumbles!
IntermittentSprocket 2 years ago
Roger Ebert gave this movie a bad review, though I don't think it was all bad. The filmmakers obviously wanted to make something inspiring, and in a way it worked. This movie inspired lots of kids to want to be astronauts!
But this part irked a lot of viewers. They knew NASA would never let kids sit in the cockpit while the rockets are tested. With the Challenger disaster in America's collective memory, this movie needed a re-write.
MondoBeno 2 years ago 3
You also have to remember that this came out in the summer of '86 - it was already fimed and edited when the Challenger disaster happened. I think the reason why it was released on time is to pay homage to the Challenger - although I do have to agree with what you say about kids in the shuttle during a main engine test.
silicon212 2 years ago
@MondoBeno i think they did let children sit in the cockpit while the rockets were tested many times. it was safe because they would never let this happen. BUt I think NASA really did
at least thats what I heard
jasmine5000 1 year ago
BEST SCENE in the whole MOVIE!!!! Ghoosebumps every time!
Dreaklock 2 years ago 2
lea thompson.. HOT in the 80s.. 1986 would make her 25.. still older than my age right now.
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citizencraig 2 years ago
yes i cant wait for this movie to be all dun downloading i cant wait ahahaha tobad i cant find russkies cudukat you no its a kids movie right and who cares its a great movie unlike slumdog millionaire and this win best picture rather see space camp bahahaha
Valllick 2 years ago
And contrary to popular belief, there is such a thing as a Thermal Curtain Failure during a test-firing sequence of the shuttle's main engines. If such an event were ever to happen IRL, their only chance to save those kids would have been to do exactly what happened in the movie. In other words, they would have had to initiate an auto-launch that would have sent that shuttle into orbit. I am however unaware of any event that has happened in the history of NASA in recent years since Challenger.
MarcR2006 2 years ago
I always figured they would do a "Return to Pad Abort" where the shuttle burns out it's SRB's going at a higher angle of attack, and then flips over slowly to push its self pack towards the cape, drops the tank, and lands at the strip there. I remember reading about it somewhere.
jeromeyward 2 years ago
To do so would be a futile maneuver during a Thermal Curtain Failure. Once launch sequence has begun there's no stopping it. The shuttle must achieve orbit or the shuttle will quite literally burn up in the planet's ionosphere before it ever reaches orbit. There is a popular theory floating around that in the Challenger disaster, they could have jettisoned the leaking booster and used the shuttle's main engines as a support to reach orbit, though that's just a theory.. unproven.
MarcR2006 2 years ago
To MarcR2006: It wouldn't be a futile maneuver, it is an actual abort mode called Return To Launch Site or RTLS. There's also TAL, Transoceanic Abort Landing where they land in Europe or North Africa after crossing the Atlantic. You're right about Challenger though, once the SRBs light, you're commited to flight until they burn out.
gherinquad 2 years ago 3
Per wikipedia: "NASA has contingency plans to provide for a launch abort at any phase of the launch process, including the options of Return to Launch Site (RTLS), an East Coast Abort Landing (ECAL) Site, and three Space Shuttle Transoceanic Abort Landing (TAL) Sites (one in France, two in Spain[1], and until 2005, one at Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco[2])."
fanarchy 2 years ago 4
and another in Bangalor, India
goflames81 2 years ago
Thats what i thought as well, just do an abort...
antidiz 1 year ago
@jeromeyward Yes, that is possible.
zombiesurfer1 1 year ago
@jeromeyward It's called an RTLS, return to launch site abort. There are other options, including landing at a transatlantic site (TAL), or an abort to orbit (ATO).
thesmart358 1 year ago
Actually, Scientific, you are incorrect. They DO allow kids from Space Camp in Florida to train and sometimes sit in the shuttle cockpit when the shuttle is test-firing its main engines. And you were wrong about the Thermal Curtain situation on the Shuttle Challenger in 1986. The explosion that killed those 7 astronauts was not a Thermal Curtain failure.. it was a fuel leak in one of the main boosters that ignited the explosion thus killing those 7 astronauts.
MarcR2006 2 years ago
Although this was based in Huntsville
Frog
Frogki1 2 years ago
And if you're hung up, as Roger Ebert was at the time, on the fact that NASA would never allow kids in a shuttle when the rockets were firing, etc., then you're forgetting that it's just a movie. It's a fun kid fantasy, really.
Scientific1 2 years ago
Actually, they do, and have. I have read about it. They also somtimes allow kids to help setup actual launches. They allow them to HELP.
Frogki1 2 years ago
Dude, go to the space camp website, they do allow kids to sit in it when it is testing... It is called a test firing, they don't expect something like a launch to happen... Anyway, they even allow kids to help with actual launches sometimes...
Frogki1 2 years ago
Um, think you better do a little research. There's no way in hell they'd let some kids sit in the vehicle for an engine tests (FRF tests aren't even done anymore by the way). Do you really think they'd let kids sit on top of 500,000 gallons of highly explosive fuel?
da40flyer1 2 years ago 2
Umm, mabe you should do yours. Look it up on NASA's website, or space camps website... And isn't that what they do with the people who are supposed to go up into space? LOL... Think before you speak... And yes, they do... Like I said, they also let them help with launches sometimes when there are launches... Whatever, you don't do your research, you just assume because your probably some adult dude who tries to think practically...
Frogki1 2 years ago
you mean NASA really was stupid enough to put children in the shuttle when they really were testing the boosters? OMG wow
THey are lucky nothing like this ever really happened. It would have been intereasting to see what the fallout would be if this movie really did happen
jasmine5000 2 years ago
i have never heard of this movie this was real?
tdawg598 2 years ago
it isnt real lol. They never were forced to launch the shuttle or put children into space. They would be dealing with lawsuits for the next 20 years.
jasmine5000 2 years ago 2
I was 11, and Lea Thompson, while not my first crush, became one in this movie. I credit this character, in part, with my being attracted only to beautiful women with a brain...
Scientific1 2 years ago
The film may have tanked, but the soundtrack easily fetches at least $100 on eBay. It's one of the most rare John Williams soundtracks out there.
cubdukat 3 years ago 2
does thermo curtain failure exist? or is it Hollywood stuff/
Rotweiler34 3 years ago
Yes.
The Challenger suffered Thermal Curtain abnormalities and exploded shortly after launch in 1986.
It was also the very reason this film tanked at the box-office. People were just not ready to see this film at the time,
Fortunately it was a huge hit on video, and frequently received TV airings, making it the classic kids space movie it now is to many of us.
CheeseheadTanner 3 years ago 4
Yes, it is true, it happened during the challenger disaster, one of their boosters overheated...
As the movie explains, the thermal curtain failure is when one of the booster overheats, not usually in the way this movie portrays, but that way could happen to, but it ussually means death for the astronauts, the shuttle most indeffinatly explodes...
Frogki1 2 years ago
Why did my comments get a down rating, it is true, look it up???
Frogki1 2 years ago
I was 8, and lea thompson was my first crush
yodagurlie 3 years ago 2
Loved this movie when it came out. I was 18 at the time. I just showed it to my nieces and nephews - they absolutely loved it, too.
jobie123 3 years ago
wow still amazing to see every time
still think id crap myself if that happened to me.
spartan4780 3 years ago 3
I'd be drinking mental champagne if it happened to me! Whatever happened next would be worth it.
AmusedChild 3 years ago
lol space camp is different 20 years ago till now
tyang8 3 years ago
The only difference between this and Challenger is that is the Challenger never reach the orbit
PawelK198604 3 years ago 2
And it wasn't one lit up, both lit up, one just over heated, most probably due to weather conditions...
Frogki1 2 years ago
Like I said, look it up...
Frogki1 2 years ago
Hey..I see a certain Terry O'quinn there at nasa control!..AKA John Locke "LOST" looks a bit younger tho!
Naomi0111 3 years ago 2
the wall -E
lookin robot sounds like
meatwad from Aqua Teen Hunger Force :)
earthdog82 3 years ago
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10 hundred buck the matt meuller doing ring turns and bush killed you all and bragged and said they niggered this on purpose and thats why they will never do anything and connie the nigger is injecting thats why they all die... they all die and here is who did it. verify!
schonhans 3 years ago
You should seek meds for your problem, freak!
murrayjohnd 3 years ago
That was aimed at schonhans.
murrayjohnd 3 years ago
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insert vampire id here, and they bragged thats why they did it and it killed them all and connie the nigger from newport news said it. verify!
schonhans 3 years ago
ok i have to ask if this happened in real life who here would kill to be on that shuttle?????? i know i would and i hate flying.
seeker2482 3 years ago
Yup, covered up with your tax dollars sucka. Dan Rather didn't even know!!!
IrishLincoln 3 years ago
i love this movie! does anyone know where i could find it on the computer? i know its like $5 but i cnt find it at any store
ProudtobeUSA117 3 years ago
I've heard so many people complain about the subplot with the robot and call the movie childish junk, and say the only thing that redeems the film is William's score. I couldn't disagree more. Not only is the pacing and tension well done - I always hold my breath during the oxygen attachment scene no matter how often I've watched it - but the acting is top-notch, virtually flawless, not a misstep. The acting is what carries the movie. Great stuff.
ThirdCultureKidTCK 3 years ago 3
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That it was, unfortunately neither the acting or John Williams' music was enough to overcome the fact that this was a mdeiocre movie at best that had the disadvantage of being released at the entirely wrong time.
Maybe Fox would have been better off if they sent it straight to video instead. Then again, I don't supposed that direct-to-video was an option in 1986.
cubdukat 2 years ago
I used to watch this movie and then tip back the dining room tables and stack crates above and pretend I was taking off.
I think I might just rent this and watch it again. :)
sumermarie 3 years ago 2
If I remember correctly, I bought the DVD at Wal Mart for $7.50 a few months ago. It's probably in the $5 bin by now.
jeromeyward 3 years ago
@jeromeyward so did i
SuperRobbie1976 1 year ago