Keith’s note: As you have probably noticed by now I have been helping the AIA folks get the word out about their crowd funding campaign. Now the Challenger Center for Space Science Education has joined the effort. This is a chance for all NASA Watch readers to put their money where their mouths are so as to put a simple message about space in front of a movie audience inclined […]
Challenger Center Announces New Leadership Team “Dr. Scott Parazynski, chairman of Challenger Center for Space Science Education (Challenger Center), today announced a new leadership team for the non-profit organization with Dr. Lance Bush as President and Chief Executive Officer and Steven Kussmann as Chief Operating Officer. Dr. Bush is currently the Chief Strategic Officer and head of the Washington office of Paragon Space Development Corporation. Kussmann is currently Challenger Center’s […]
Families of Challenger and Chairman of the Board of Challenger Center for Space Science Education Regarding the Future of Human Spaceflight “We, the families of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew and founders of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education–heroes we lost to further the exploration of space–strongly support the continuation of human spaceflight under a new paradigm of commercially led efforts to low earth orbit, and government led efforts […]
NASA Ames to Host Tribute to Nobel Prize Winner Baruch Blumberg “Among the speakers scheduled at the tribute celebration are former NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin, Ames Research Center Director S. Pete Worden and members of the Blumberg family. Also featured will be a video tribute and presentations by the Mars Institute, the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, and NASA Ames. The tribute will be webcast at http://connect.arc.nasa.gov/blumberg“ Keith’s […]
Endeavour’s Final Launch Inspires Hands-on Public Engagement: High Altitude Balloon Mission “The helium-filled balloon carrying the “Senatobia-1″ payload will be launched from the vicinity of Gainesville, Florida. The expected balloon launch time is on Monday, 16 May between 7:30 to 7:45 am EDT. This will allow the balloon and its payload to be in position at an altitude of approximately 100,000 feet for Endeavour’s supersonic transit of the stratosphere beginning […]
Challenger Center Commemorates 25 Years of Inspiring Students through Space Science Exploration “Challenger Center for Space Science Education (Challenger Center), the nation’s premier provider of science education inspiration, is marking its 25th anniversary with the launch of its “Challenger Changed My Life” program to highlight its life-transforming benefits for students. The non-profit organization was founded on April 24, 1986 in tribute to the seven fallen astronauts of the Challenger Space […]
“Rise to the edge of space, freefall for 50,000 feet, fly through clouds, and land gently in bushes” Educational Balloon Provides Space Shuttle Launch Images and Video From Over 110,000 feet “A balloon with a student-oriented payload shot high resolution photos and video from an altitude of over 110,000 feet of Space Shuttle Discovery as it climbed into space.”
Keith’s note: This is a much longer version of the previously released video – with music. If at all possible watch this at 720p resolution. As the payload slowly rotates you will see Discovery’s vapor trail at the Earth’s limb. The payload (with camera) swings to the west (where the sun is) and then swings back to the east, past Discovery’s vapor trail, around to the west again and then […]
If you can, watch this video in HD (select the 720p option). As the payload slowly rotates you will see Discovery’s vapor trail at the Earth’s limb – twice. The payload (with camera) first swings to the west and then reverses and swings back to the east, past Discovery’s vapor trail, around to the west again, and then continues to rotate to the east toward the vapor trail again. Educational […]
Make sure watch in HD! More Robonaut-1 mission video and imagery will be released in conjunction with a presentation at the Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference being held in Orlando 28 Februrary to 2 March. Co-sponsored by the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, this mission is one in a series of flights conducted by Quest for Stars, a California-based non-profit educational organization that uses off-the-shelf hardware and a little ingenuity […]