December Campout at Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

Sorry for the Picture Quality, I got so excited about going that I forgot my camera, these were actually taken with my phone. The troop had a good time earning their space exploration merit badge.

If you haven't been, I highly recommend going, you can fill a day just looking at the numerous displays from the Smithsonian collection, including the real Apollo 13 command module.

The merit badge instructors there made a point to say that the vast majority of all astronauts and all but one of the astronauts who have walked on the moon were at one time Scouts.

And with the coming upturn in our space exploration efforts, todays Scouts are likely to make up the majority of our next generation of Lunar Explorers.

P.S. If anyone else in the troop has additional photos you would like to see me add to the gallery send them to my email and I'll add them in.