Editing SpaceCamp (section)

== Reception ==
''SpaceCamp'' received mixed reviews with 53% of critics giving it positive reviews on [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 15 reviews. Critic [[Roger Ebert]] gave it a one and half star rating, saying that "Our thoughts about the Space Shuttle will never be the same again, and our memories are so painful that ''SpaceCamp'' is doomed even before it begins."<ref>{{cite news|title= 'Spacecamp'|work= Chicago Sun Times|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/spacecamp-1986}}</ref>  ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' says that "''SpaceCamp'' never successfully integrates summer camp hijinks with outer space idealism to come up with a dramatically compelling story",<ref>{{cite news|title= 'Spacecamp'|work= Variety|date=1985-12-31|url= https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117795084.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0|access-date=2010-11-02}}</ref> while James Sanford of the ''[[Kalamazoo Gazette]]'' responds "Not exactly out of this world".

In a 2012 interview with ''[[The A.V. Club]]'', Lea Thompson mentioned that "I've had a lot of people come up to me and say that they became physicists or inventors, how much they loved that movie and how much it inspired them."<ref name=AVClub />

In 2016, in honor of the 30th anniversary of ''SpaceCamp''<nowiki/>'s release, [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] inducted the film’s cast into the [[Space Camp (United States)|Space Camp Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{Citation|title=Hall of Fame Class of 2016: Space Camp| date=4 August 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVtsnQ30bOM |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/sVtsnQ30bOM| archive-date=2021-12-11 |url-status=live|language=en|access-date=2021-04-26}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2014-02-18|title=Space Camp Hall Of Fame|url=https://www.spacecamp.com/halloffame|access-date=2021-04-26|website=www.spacecamp.com|language=en}}</ref>