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Challenger Learning Center
View and download images of Challenger Center mission patches that flew on STS-120.
View and download images taken with the planetarium's fisheye camera during space shuttle mission STS-120 .
A field trip with no boundaries. A visit to the Challenger Center is a learning experience that engages students, transforming them into scientists, engineers or researchers on a simulated space mission. It expands a classroom to distant planets; it turns learning into inspiration and students into explorers.
Great discounts are available for first time flyers! If your school has never participated in a Challenger Center Mission, now is the time to board for your first flight.
Perfect for:
- Class trips, 1st grade - high school
- Science clubs and ROTC programs
- Scout and youth groups
- Birthday parties
- Corporate teambuilding
Inspiring, exploring, learning, it’s our mission. At the Challenger Learning Centers, we focus on skills far beyond space science – we use the excitement of space travel as a foundation for interdisciplinary tasks and life skills that can turn a moment of success into a lifetime of difference.
Interdisciplinary tasks incorporated:
- science
- engineering
- math
- social studies
- health
- reading
- computer skills
TEKS and life skills incorporated:
- responsibility
- problem solving
- critical thinking
- teamwork
- communication
- listening
- following instructions
- observation
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