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''''Space Camp''''' is a family adventure movie from 1986 about a group of kids at a space camp who unexpectedly get launched up into space for real. However the Shuttle was still in pre-flight prepping thus wasn't prepared for any kind of full mission. With only a limited air supply and virtually no communication with Earth, the kids and their instructor (played by Kate Capshaw) must [[Power of Friendship|work together]] to get home safe and sound.

The movie is largely forgotten today and was critically panned upon its first release, due to the marketing nightmare that came about from the 1986 [[Too Soon|Challenger shuttle disaster]] that claimed the lives of seven American astronauts and grounded the shuttle program indefinitelyfor several years until the cause could be determined and rectified. It didn't help, either, that the malfunction in the film [[Harsher in Hindsight|partly resembled the malfunction in life]].