About Us

CONTRIBUTORS

Challenger Center deeply appreciates supporters and partners for their contributions to the efforts to educate and inspire our nation’s school children to become scientifically literate adults who can thrive in a world increasingly driven by information and technology. Our efforts to prepare students to succeed in a global community with the STEM and interpersonal skills to command their own destinies and lead our nation forward would not be possible without their significant and ongoing support.

Please contact us for more information about becoming a donor.

Major sponsors include:

Challenger Benefactor ($100,000 +)

• The Boeing Company
  
• NASA
  

Challenger Patron ($50,000 to $100,000)

• Richard Garriott
  
• Lockheed Martin Corporationt
  
• McKee Family
  

Sustaining Partner ($25,000 to $50,000)

• American Pacific Corporation
  
• Clarence E. Harris Foundation
• Ingenicomm
• SAP
  
• Scitor
  
• Steele Foundation
  
• Wyle
  

Strategic Partner ($10,000 to 25,000)

• EADS North America, Inc.
  
• EIT, Inc.
  
• June Scobee Rodgers
  
• SAP America
  
• United Space Alliance
  
• Wyle Laboratories
  

Partner ($5,000 to $10,000)

• Andrew Family Foundation
• AMPAC - American Pacific Corporation
  
• Available Plastics, Inc.
  
• Booz-Allen & Hamilton Incorporated
  
• Caldwell Foundation
  
• Charles S. Resnik
• Clarence E. Harris Foundation Inc.
• Jack E. Maxwell
• Mary L. Tyler/Tyler-Little Family Foundation
• Lindsey Wilson College
  
• SunTrust Bank
  

Supporter ($1,000 to $5,000)

• Cheryl M. McNair
• Joseph Fuller
• Terry Giles
• TelecomPioneers, Alexander Graham Bell  Chapter
• George Hillegass
• Janet L. Hedrick
• Gwen Griffin
• Miles O'Brien
• Keith Cowing
• Andrea Senchy
• Pamela Wickham
• Available Plastics, Inc.
• Steven Muller
• Scitor Corporation
• Robert W. Garthwait
• Alan H. Lund
• Ingenicomm
• William C. Wells
• Jane Smith Wolcott
• Gary E. Hogan
• Fred Lees, The Robert Nichols Farm Trust
• Cynthia L. Lee
• Richard L. Albrecht
• Joseph Morris
• Joseph P. Allen
• Steven J. McAuliffe
• Nancy C. Springer
• Scott E. Parazynski
• William F. Readdy
• John M. Arnsparger
• John M. Foy
• Congregation Beth Yeshurun
• Clair Cunningham

PARTNERSHIPS

Challenger Center is privileged to work with some of the most prestigious partners in the fields of science and education, including:

• American Astronomical Society/Department of Planetary Science
  www.aas.org
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
  www.aiaa.org
• American Museum of Natural History
  www.amnh.org
• Association of Science-Technology Centers
  www.astc.org
• Association of Space Explorers
  www.space-explorers.org
• Astronomical Society of the Pacific
  www.astrosociety.org
• Centennial of Flight Commission
  www.centennialofflight.gov
• Center for Educational Technologies (Wheeling Jesuit University)
  www.cet.edu
• Civil Air Patrol/Aerospace Education Foundation (Air Force)
  www.cap.gov
• Coalition for Space Exploration
  www.spacecoalition.com
• Commercial Spaceflight Federation
  www.commercialspaceflight.org
• Green Trail Energy, Inc.
  www.greentrailenergy.com
• Griffin Communications Group
  www.griffinmktg.com
• Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory/Project ARIES
  cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/sed/resources/aries.html
• JASON Foundation
  www.jasonfoundation.com
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
  www.jpl.nasa.gov
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
  www.jhuapl.edu
• Kansas Cosmosphere
  www.cosmo.org
• KZO Networks
  www.kzonetworks.com
• Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project
  www.moonviews.com
• Lunar & Planetary Institute
  www.lpi.usra.edu
• Miles O'Brien Productions
  milesobrien.com
• NASA
  www.nasa.gov
• NASA Classroom of the Future
  www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/informal/internet/COTF.html
• NASA Desert RATS
• www.nasa.gov/desertrats/
• NASA Lunar Science Institute
• lunarscience.nasa.gov/
• NASA Learning Technologies Project/NASA QUEST
  quest.arc.nasa.gov
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
  www.nctm.org
• National Science Foundation
  www.nsf.gov
• National Science Teachers Association
  www.nsta.org
• NASA Watch
  www.nasawatch.com
• Planetary Society
  www.planetary.org
• Project 2061/American Association for the Advancement of Science
  www.project2061.org
• Quest for Stars
• www.questforstars.com
• Sally Ride Science Club
  www.sallyrideclub.com
• SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence)
  www.seti-inst.edu
• Smithsonian Institution
  www.si.edu
• Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
  www.nasm.si.edu
• Space Adventures
  www.spaceadventures.com
• Space Center Houston/Manned Space Flight Education Foundation, Inc.
  www.spacecenter.org/msfefi.html
• Space Day Foundation
  www.spacedayfoundation.org
• SpaceFlight Now
• www.spaceflightnow.com
• Space Foundation
  calspace.ucsd.edu/spacegrant/
• Space Grant Consortium
  calspace.ucsd.edu/spacegrant/
• SpaceRef Interactive, Inc.
  www.spaceref.com
• Space Science Institute
  www.spacescience.org
• Space Science Telescope Institute
  www.stsci.edu
• SpaceX
  www.spacex.com
• Young Astronauts Council
  www.youngastronauts.org
• United States Space Camp
  www.spacecamp.com