Check www.meritbadge.com (another great invention in and of itself) for the
Space Ex requirements. Its a fun badge to
teach (but frustrating for the Scouts when their rockets get lost in the
trees as they sometimes do no matter how big a field you use!).

"Matt J. McCullar" wrote in message
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I earned my Astronomy merit badge during the 1980s. It was my hobby back
then and I would eventually start working in a planetarium, but at the
time
the requirements struck me as being kind of tough. The "toughest"
requirement for me then (remember, I was only about 13 or so at the time)
was determining your latitude. This is easy to do with the North Star,
but
not as easy when you're trying to determine it from the Sun.

The BSA does change requirements of merit badges as time marches on. If
they didn't, nobody would work on them. For example, the Aviation badge
used to require you to build and fly a model airplane ("You may use a kit
but must carve the propeller yourself."). When I earned the Computers
badge, it pictured a reel of magnetic tape and a punched card.

Some badges have even been dropped over the years and new ones added.

I wonder what the requirements for Space Exploration are like today? They
must stay up nights having to rewrite the requirements on that one.