Challenger Teaching Center Is Opened
More than 2 1/2 years after the Challenger exploded, the crew members’ dream of teaching children about space was turned into reality with the opening of the first Challenger Center.
The center at Houston’s Museum of Natural Science, paid for with a $150,000 private grant, opened Thursday. It will give students an opportunity to make a simulated spaceflight complete with a mission control center and scientific experiments.
The center is expected to serve as a model for dozens of similar centers, or Mission Sites, planned for science museums throughout the country. The planned hub of the network will be the Challenger Center Space-Life Station, a $15-million facility to be built in Washington.
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