The Merits of Space Boy Scout Program**

Space 101: for Boy Scouts
5-Day Residential camp
For Scouts entering grades 6, 7 & 8

Earn 5 merit badges: Space Exporation, Engineering, Weather, Aviation and Astronomy

• Train for the challenges of living and working in space using KAOS simulators: stress simulator, centrifuge, multi-axis trainer and Mission Control
• Build and launch a model rocket
• Enjoy an extended star observing session with state-of-the-art telescopes
• Learn the lessons of history in the Hall of Space Museum - Housing an Apollo White Room; the lost spacecraft, Liberty Bell 7; the Apollo 13 command module, Odyssey; a flown Russian Vostok and many other U.S. and Russian space artifacts
• Tie it all together as your team flies a low Earth orbit mission in the Falcon III spacecraft simulator
  
  Program dates

  Session 1	July 24-28, 2012	Open
  Session 2	July 31 - August 4, 2012	Open

Pricing: $559 per scout

Robotics Merit Badge

• Learn about the exciting field of robotics
• View full-scale replicas of robots used on the Moon and Mars
• Design robots and use computers to program them
• Make liquid oxygen ice cream
• Tour the Hall of Space Museum

Program dates

Pricing: $50 scouts / $25 adults

Space Exploration Merit Badge

• Plan your own mission
• Build and launch model rockets
• Learn in-depth information about the Space Shuttle
• Tour of the Hall of Space Museum
• See live rocket science demonstation in Dr. Goddard's Lab

Program dates

Pricing: $50 scouts / $25 adults

Astronomy Merit Badge

• Examine the stars and planets through our state-of-the-art telescope
• Make your own telescope
• Tour the Hall of Space Museum
• View a show in the Justice Planetarium

Program dates

Pricing: $45 scouts / $20 adults

ALL-NEW! The Ultimate Combo Overnight

• Spend the night at the Cosmosphere
• Tour the Hall of Space Museum
• Enjoy IMAX, Planetarium and Dr. Goddard's Labe shows
• Build and launch model rockets
• Construct and operate robots
• View the night sky through state-of-the-art telescopes
• All meals are provided

Program dates

Pricing: $95 scouts / $40 adults

The Cosmosphere and the Kansas Underground Salt Museum are making it possible for you to get the most out of your trip to Hutchinson. Earn a merit badge at the Cosmosphere during the day and then tour the salt museum and spend the night 650 feet underground.

The following dates are scheduled. You need to contact both the Cosmosphere and the Salt Museum to make arrangements for your group.

Click here for more details on staying 650' underground with your scout troop.

• Program dates

  January 21, 2012 Space Exploration

  February 25, 2012 Engineering