I found it weird that this movie came out the same year that Space Shuttle "Challenger" blew up upon impact- (1986) Can you imagine: I know that we are all mourning as a nation from the challenger disaster...so now let's all watch a movie about teens sucessfully making it! LOL.
shareIt was to come out the same f'en month. God, I'm glad I did not have money invested in the movie.
shareInitially the movie was going to come out after the success of The Challenger. This movie would have done so well if things had worked out. I was 13 when the Challenger exploded. Time stood still. Perhaps my first real look at mortality.
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You want to talk about time standing still? I was 6 years old, in first grade, and because it was a big deal due to McAuliffe being the first teacher in space, the whole school was watching the launch in the auditorium. It went from cheering and laughing to dead silence in a split-second. Everyone was stunned that we had just watched people die live on TV. I had nightmares for months.
shareYou can blame it on fate. No one knew the Challenger would explode. Production wrapped long before the accident. They could have had sat on the shelf for a few years before they released it, but ABC Motion Pictures didn't have the money like most studios. It was also the last film by them, so they probably had no choice but to release it in the hopes that it would keep the studio afloat.
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SpaceCamp shares the bad timing award with the movie Big Trouble.
From Wikipedia:
Big Trouble was originally scheduled for release on September 21, 2001 and had a strong advertising push. The events of September 11 of that year cast an unshakable pall over the movie's comedic smuggling of a nuclear device onto an airplane. (A gun also makes its way onto the plane, but this was easily overshadowed by the specter of the WMD.) Consequently, the film was pushed back until April 2002, and the promotion campaign was toned down almost to the point of abandonment. Big Trouble came quietly to American theaters and left quickly afterwards, receiving mixed reviews and being generally ignored by audiences, becoming a box office bomb. It currently holds a 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 112 reviews.
Even Punky Brewster had a 'Very Special Episode' about the accident.
'When there's no more room in Hollywood, remakes shall walk the Earth.'
Ahhh, the Very Special Episode. A staple of 80s television. I believe Webster did one every other week.
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I remember that. Their teacher, Mike (played by TK Carter), allows his class to watch the launch since Christa McAuliffe was going up. Punky is devastated when it happens. Buzz Aldrin visits her and Henry to cheer her up, tells her about the Young Astronauts program, and not to give up on her dream.
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