The Military Child Education Coalition (MCEC) is sending 15 children from military families to the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., this year. The MCEC’s Bernard Curtis Brown II Memorial Space Camp scholarship was named for Bernard Brown II, the 11-year-old son of Navy Chief Petty Officer Bernard Brown. Bernard “had been selected to go to California by the National Science Foundation to attend a science conference,” said retired Army Lt. Gen. Don Jones a member of the MCEC’s board of directors. “Unfortunately, on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, he boarded the plane at Reagan National Airport that was flown into the Pentagon. The scholarship program invites young people representing all services, both active duty and activated Guard and Reserve units, to present an essay to the MCEC telling why they would like to go to space camp, General Jones said.