Lakeview's Lions Gate Space Center Prepares to Open. Watch a Time Lapse of Central School and the Space Center's Demolition. The New CMSC Planetarium Takes Shape. From the CMSC Archives: The Staff and Volunteers Return to Work and A Tale of Two Captains. The Imaginarium Theater!

Virus or Not, Lakeview Academy's Lion's Gate Center Gears Up for a New School Year.

Parriss models the latest in Starfleet Virus Protocol.

     Nathan and Parriss King are busy with opening day preparations at the Lions Gate Center at Lakeview Academy in Saratoga Springs, Utah.  Number one on their to do list is safety protocols.  How do you fly over 1000 students and teachers in regular rotations in the space edventure center's three starship simulators (Apollo, Artemis, and Leo).  It looks like they've settled on two options, Face Mask and Face Shield.  One thing I'm sure of, the microphone foam covers will be changed for every flight director.  It's a no brainer that those foam microphone covers used at every one of Utah's Space EdVenture Centers are the perfect carriers of every communicable disease currently in the offering. 

     Parriss reports that this year the simulators at the Lions Gate Center will limit occupancy to 13 crew members with lots and lots of disinfecting between missions.   

      

Nathan King testing the equipment at the Lions Gate Center.
Have Masks, Will Fly.

News From the Christa McAuliffe Space Center 

By James Porter, CMSC Director

A glimpse into the demolition process that brought a close to the 3rd building to host Central Elementary students. Felt we should say goodbye before we welcome the next group of great minds into our new facility next week.

The New Planetarium Dome Takes Shape at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center, Pleasant Grove, Utah

     

     The new Christa McAuliffe Space Center Planetarium is taking shape.  If all goes well the new CMSC will open this Fall.  The new Central Elementary School will open its doors for students this Tuesday as the 2020-2021 school year gets underway.

From the CMSC Archives. Ten Years Ago this Week. On the Subway to Wonderland Station. The Space Center Staff and Volunteers Return to Work.

Posted on The Troubadour. August 23, 2010

Hello Troops,
Today I took the Subway to the Wonderland Station. It is time for the Space Center and the Imaginarium to open for full normal business. The train was packed with Wonderland employees returning to work after their forced vacation (thanks to the Space Center's three week closing for our summer vacation). There were smiles on many faces, the kind that come from knowing one still has a job to return to in these tough recessionary times.

Yes, even Wonderland has been hit by the Great Recession. Millions of Americans have had their financial dreams shattered by the world's faltering economy. Instead of having time to imagine and dream, more and more people are struggling to just make ends meet. Parental stress is also effecting the nation's children, whose imaginations are the primary fuel powering Wonderland.

Regardless of the situation out in the real world, I was happy to be back on the subway heading to the CMSEC and back to my normal routine, surrounded by the kind of people that think outside the box and look at the world a bit differently. We CMSEC folks are a befuddled group endowed with eternal optimism and a belief that the future is bright. The dark forces of despair brought on by the nation's woes are bewildering to us.  With a firm mission in hand, the Space Center's staff and volunteers will work to ensure that creativity, wonder and imagination remain vibrant in this world. It is our goal, it is our mission, and it is what we are paid to do.

You never know who you're going to bump into on the Subway to the Wonderland Station.
Just a few I met on the train today.

Volunteers and Staff. I'm glad to be back, glad you're back with me and glad to be in the trenches. Let's have a great 2010-2011 Space Center season!

Mr. Williamson

From the CMSC Archives. Twelve Years Ago this Month. The Joy and Pain of the Space Center.

From The Troubadour.  August 5, 2008

The Voyager Captain

The Magellan Captain

Well,
     Here you have it. Two captains from this summer's camps. The captain of a Voyager mission seems a bit upset. Could the mission be lost? Could his crew be driving him crazy?  The other is a captain from a Magellan mission. Do I detect success written in his expression?
     These pictures, in a way, represent the Space Center -  where every mission is different. Missions can end in success or failure. Where else do you get this kind of an interactive experience that relies on you for its success?
Movies? NO. In a movie you are a captive audience. You watch what's put in front of you.  Amusement Parks? NO. You ride the ride. At the end you say it was great or it wasn't. If you're happy you say they built a great ride. If you're not you say they wasted their money building the ride.
     Here at the CMSEC your actions decide the results. Work hard, think carefully through all problems, work well as a team, listen to comprehend and you may be successful. That is the joy of what we do at the Space Education Center. We take you out there, step back, and see what you do to yourselves.
     Live or die, sink or swim, succeed or fail - it is all UP TO YOU.
     There is no place like this in the world.
     Thank you to all that participated in our 2008 summer camp programs. Now get ready for there is lots more to come!

Mr. Williamson

Imaginarium Theater.

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