HUNTSVILLE — The U.S Space & Rocket Center celebrated 40 years of Space Camp with a special Space Camp Hall of Fame induction ceremony covering two classes.
There were no ceremonies due to the pandemic, the 2022 inductees include four individuals comprising the 2020 Space Camp Hall of Fame class and the crew of Inspiration4, the first all-civilian space mission to orbit the Earth, from the 2021 class.
The event was held June 17 in the Saturn V Hall of the Davidson Center for Space Exploration.
The 2020 Hall of Fame class honored Brian Dudas, Boeing 767-400 first officer; Derek Hodgins, strategy and business development, Lunar Exploration, Lockheed Martin Space; Peter Marquez, head of space policy for Amazon Web Services; and Mandy Vaughn, founder and CEO of GXO.
The 2021 Hall of Fame Class recognized the Inspiration4 crew including Mission Commander Jared Isaacman, founder and CEO of Shift4; Chris Sembroski, mission specialist and senior analytics engineer; Hayley Arceneaux, medical officer and physician’s assistant; and Dr. Sian Proctor, mission pilot and geoscience professor.
Last September, Inspiration4 crew orbited the Earth for three days aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. The mission raised more than $240 million for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Issacman is a graduate of the Aviation Challenge program, and Sembroski is a former Space Camp counselor. Arceneaux and Proctor are being inducted as friends of Space Camp.
After their induction, the crew took part in a fireside chat moderated by Jeffrey Kluger, editor at large for Time magazine.
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