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We journeyed to outer space and back on our final Xennial Girl Summer rewatch of 2026: The 1986 classic Space Camp. Join us for all the 80's camp (including a robot named Jinx) and a discussion of the cultural climate at the time the movie was released.

This film is hard to find on streaming services, so we watched it on Archive.org

This episode was made possible by the following sources:

Space Camp on IMDB

Space Camp on Wikipedia

Space Camp at 40 on Space.com

Neil Armstrong misheard quote on Mental Floss

Episode Topics and Mentions:

Dawson's Creek

Party of Five

Alias

John Williams

Star Wars

Indiana Jones

Harry Potter

E.T.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg

NASA

Challenger disaster

Roger Ebert

VHS era

US Space & Rocket Center

Huntsville, Alabama

Kennedy Space Center

Cape Canaveral

Atlantis shuttle simulator

Gimbal technology

Kate Capshaw

Tom Skerritt

Tate Donovan

Lea Thompson

Kelly Preston

Joaquin (Leaf) Phoenix

Jennifer Aniston

Sandra Bullock

Hercules

Friends

Ally McBeal

Love Potion No. 9

Memphis Belle

Top Gun

Steel Magnolias

Picket Fences

Back to the Future

Howard the Duck

Some Kind of Wonderful

Dennis the Menace

The Little Rascals

Caroline in the City

Broadway's Cabaret

Jaws 3-D

Ballet career and Mikhail Baryshnikov

Revenge of the Nerds

The Karate Kid

227

Magnum P.I.

The Jeffersons

St. Elsewhere

Martin

Seinfeld

The Jamie Foxx Show

John Travolta

Charlie Sheen

Kawasaki syndrome

Children's Health Environmental Coalition

River Phoenix

Johnny Depp

Viper Room

Walk the Line

Reese Witherspoon

Heath Ledger

Marlon Brando

Robert De Niro

The Godfather

Cults and "flirty fishing"

Space Camp Hall of Fame

Double Dare

Mikey Day

Saturday Night Live

Harry and the Hendersons

A League of Their Own

Geena Davis

Madonna

Tom Hanks

Rachel McAdams audiobook of Anne of Green Gables

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