Upon Closer Inspection

Space Camp (1986)


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1986's Space Camp was a fun movie about kids learning how to fly a NASA shuttle... and then having to do it for real when they're accidentally launched into the stratosphere! 

...Except it came out after the Challenger disaster, the fiery shuttle wreck that claimed the lives of 7 crew members and traumatized a generation. Oops! Justin O'Hearn joins Allison and Kyle to talk about why this movie disaster traumatized him - or maybe didn't. Topics include: 

  • Whether this movie was written by nerds or jocks
  • The Phoenix kids' weird names (a young Joaquin stars in this film, billed as Leaf - NOT LEIF - Phoenix)
  • The touching - and creepy - relationship between a boy and a multi-million dollar robot that NASA couldn't care less about
  • Whether or not kids in the 80s gave a care about Dire Straits and Eric Clapton
...more
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Upon Closer InspectionBy Allison Tweedie