HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- The U.S. Space & Rocket Center's Space Camp is honoring its 600,000 trainee to graduate from Space Camp today.

The celebration is tied into Space Camp's 30th anniversary. It was founded in 1982 as the U.S. Space & Rocket Center museum's education program to promote the study of math, science and technology.

This education program couples classroom instruction with hands-on activities and teaches teamwork, decision-making and leadership. Rocket scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun, while leading the team of scientists and engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center that sent astronauts to the moon, inspired these programs that have challenged and educated youngsters from all 50 states and more than 60 countries and territories. SPACE CAMP has become known as one of the premier math/science/technology educational programs in the entire country.