Highlights
Participants become apprentice astronauts who have to cooperate with each other in a simulated space environment
About This Deal
- Participants cooperate with each other, role-play, experience an adventure, and have a chance to acquire lots of useful skills and knowledge in a space-themed environment
- What’s included for school groups:
- 4 hours of teacher in-service training
- Pre and post classroom materials
- 2-hour student mission for the whole class
- Missions can be combined with planetarium programming or visits to other historical or cultural venues
- What’s included for everybody:
- Single mission
- Around 1.5 hours of runtime
- One-sided mission with only Space Station for groups of 14 or less
- Two-sided mission with Space Station and Mission Control for groups of 15–28
- The minimum size per group is 8 patrons and the maximum size per group is 28 patrons
- The date availability is subject to state and federal mandates related to COVID-19
Need To Know
About Challenger Learning Center
The astronauts deftly dodge the oncoming trickle of rocks and debris from the meteor shower, and as the rubble clears they see the Moon up ahead. It is at this site that they’ll soon establish the first permanent human base. Though it sounds like science fiction, novice astronauts attempt this feat daily at Challenger Learning Center. Part of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education—a nonprofit founded by the families of the astronauts who were lost in the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle mission—the center educates and inspires visitors through simulated space missions and other science education programs. Whether navigating a spacecraft or assisting astronauts in Mission Control modeled after NASA’s Johnson Space Center, student, community, and corporate groups must maintain a cooperative spirit while completing their mission.