NASA's Day of Remembrance: Messages from President Obama, NASA's Administrator
April 24, 1986: Founding of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education to carry on the educational legacy of the Challenger Space Shuttle crew who had died tragically three months earlier.
April 24, 2011: Challenger Center celebrates its 25 years of inspiring, engaging and teaching children across the nation. To celebrate, we launched the "Challenger Changed My Life" outreach program to connect with our 4 million Challenger alumni and share their stories.
"Challenger Changed My Life"
Click here to share your story of the life changing impact of a Challenger Learning Center experience.
Serving 400,000 students each year, the national network of 48 Challenger Learning Centers takes students on simulated space missions into Earth orbit, to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
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Explore Earth and Space - in school, at home, on your computer - or at a Challenger Learning Center . Check out our live and archived webcasts, podcasts, Christa McAuliffe's Lost Lessons From Space, and many other space activities for students and teachers.
NASA EXTREME ENVIRONMENT MISSION OPERATIONS
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NEW Global Climate Change Classroom Activities
Five new climate change units - with over 20 lessons - are now available. Funded by a grant from NASA.
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RECENT NEWS: ZERO G ART
ZERO G Art Show
Celestial Matters, a charity art show event was sponsored by Richard Garriott & Heidi Messer. Buzz Aldrin and Dr. June Scobee Rodgers attended the opening. For more information and photos, click here.
Celestial Matters, a charity art show event was sponsored by Richard Garriott & Heidi Messer. Buzz Aldrin and Dr. June Scobee Rodgers attended the opening. For more information and photos, click here.
Star Challengers
Star Challengers is an exciting, new young adult fiction series with June Scobee Rodgers, Founding Chairman of Challenger Center.
Star Challengers is an exciting, new young adult fiction series with June Scobee Rodgers, Founding Chairman of Challenger Center.
Silver Linings June Scobee Rodgers shares her inspiring story as the wife of the Challenger commander - and as founder of the Challenger Centers. For more information, please visit SilverLiningsbook.com or call (800) 747-3016.
Challenger Center hosted live interactive webcast with Capt. Jim Lovell.