{"id":77516,"date":"2018-04-04T11:22:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for"},"modified":"2018-04-04T11:22:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T18:22:55","slug":"what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for","title":{"rendered":"What the Spinning Chair at Space Camp is Actually For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re of a certain age, you probably know know Huntsville, Alabama\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacecamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Space Camp<\/a> best as a prize for winning <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/i-took-the-physical-challenge-and-destroyed-the-double-dare-course-at-sdcc-comic-con\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a ridiculous competition show<\/a>. And if you ever obsessed over going on that cosmic retreat, you probably wanted to get on that weird spinning chair they always showed in the clips. It\u2019s a serious looking device at a serious facility\u2013what the heck is it for?<\/p>\n<p>I was recently lucky enough to make a childhood dream come true and zipped up my flight suit for a shot at Space Camp. There, as I explain in the video above, I learned that the spinning chair has a more formal name: the Multi Axis Trainer, or MAT. It\u2019s used to give riders a feeling of what it\u2019s like to uncontrollably tumble through space.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"http:\/\/nerdist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SpaceCampMAT_FEAT.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-the-spinning-chair-at-space-camp-is-actually-for2.jpg 615w, https:\/\/nerdist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SpaceCampMAT_FEAT-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nerdist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SpaceCampMAT_FEAT-680x382.jpg 680w, https:\/\/nerdist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/SpaceCampMAT_FEAT.jpg 970w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px)  100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/nerdist.com\/space-camp-spinning-chair-purpose-multi-axis-trainer-mat\/\">https:\/\/nerdist.com\/space-camp-spinning-chair-purpose-multi-axis-trainer-mat\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re of a certain age, you probably know know Huntsville, Alabama\u2019s Space Camp best as a prize for winning a ridiculous competition show. And if you ever obsessed over going on that cosmic retreat, you probably wanted to get on that weird spinning chair they always showed in the clips. It\u2019s a serious looking [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}