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Challenger Family Members · Board of Directors · Challenger Staff

Marcia Jarvis-Tinsley
Founding Director, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

The Honorable Steven McAuliffe
Founding Director, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Cheryl McNair
Founding Director, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Lorna Onizuka
Founding Director, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Charles Resnik, M.D.
Founding Director and Vice Chairman, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

June Scobee Rodgers, Ph.D.
Founding Director and Founding Chairman,
Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Jane Smith Wolcott
Founding Director, Challenger Center for Space Science Education

Joseph P. Allen, Ph.D.
Secretary, Challenger Center for Space Science Education
Principal, Argotyche, Inc.

Jay F. Barnwell, Jr.
President and CEO, Design and Production, Inc.

Leroy Chiao, Ph.D.
Former NASA Astronaut

Jonathan B. Clark, M.D., M.P.H.
Columbia Shuttle Family Representative, Space Medicine Liaison, National Space Biomedical Research Institute, Baylor College of Medicine

Keith Cowing
President, SpaceRef Interactive, Inc.

Joseph Fuller, Jr.
President and CEO, Futron Corp

Richard Garriott
Chairman, Space Adventures & Private Astronaut

Janet L. Hedrick
Senior Associate, Bentz Whaley Fressner

Barbara Morgan
Former NASA Educator Astronaut, Distinguished Educator in Residence, Boise State University

Miles O'Brien
Broadcast News Journalist specializing in Aviation, Space and Technology

Steven Otten
Center Director, Challenger Learning Center for Science & Technology, Woodstock, Illinois

Scott Parazynski, M.D.
Former Astronaut, Director of Business Development, Wyle Integrated Science and Engineering Group

Mary Pattterson
Center Director, Brownsburg Challenger Learning Center, Indiana

William F. Readdy
Chairman, Challenger Center for Space Science Education
Founder & Managing Partner, Discovery Partners Int.

Kenneth S. Reightler
Former Astronaut. Vice President, NASA Program Integration, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company

Dan Renberg
Lawyer, Government Relations, Arent Fox

Carol A. Staubach
Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc

Alan Stern, Ph.D.
Planetary Scientist and Author

Karolyn D. Young
National Systems Group, The Aerospace Corporation

Charles Walker
Treasurer, Challenger Center for Space Science Education
Former Director, The Boeing Company, Washington DC Office

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Council of Advisors

Norman Augustine
Chairman of the Executive Committee, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Edsel Dunford
Former President and Chief Operating Officer, TRW Inc.

Carolyn Farb
President, Carolina Holdings, Inc.

The Honorable Jake Garn
Vice Chairman, Huntsman, Inc.

The Honorable John Glenn
Former United States Senator (D-OH)

Lee Greenwood
Composer, Musician, Entertainer

Frederick Gregory
Former NASA Deputy Administrator

Billie Jean King
Chief Executive Officer, Team Tennis

Emlyn Koster
President and Chief Executive Officer, Liberty Science Center

Hans Mark, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin

Donna Marriott
Volunteer

Allen Neuharth
Founder, The Freedom Forum

Kathyrn Sullivan, Ph.D.
Ohio's Center of Science & Industry

C.E. "Tom" Velez, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, CTA Inc.

Mortimer Zuckerman
Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News and World Report
Chairman, Boston Properties

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Heritage Trustees

Robert Anderson
Chairman Emeritus, Rockwell International

The Honorable Don Fuqua
Former Congressman
Former President, Aerospace Industries Association

Tom Stauffer
Consultant