Photos: Challenger Center Anniversary
The Challenger Learning Center celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Challenger Learning Center Flight Director Janet Moore, right, and Assistant Flight Director Stacey Shrewsbury looed ahead to the future when the Joseph E. Warner Challenger Learning Center of Central Illinois opened on December 14, 2003.
Challenger Learning Center lead flight director Janet Moore, warns the crew of a crisis as part of the mission in the Mars Transport Vehicle as left to right, Lauren James, Kyle Connour, Courtney Page and Morgan Campbell monitor the mission. PANTAGRAPH/Steve Smedley
Lead flight director Janet Moore stood outside the briefing room preparing a computer demonstration of the Challenger Learning Center. PANTAGRAPH/Steve Smedley
Lead flight director Janet Moore is illuminated by a power point slide show as she speaks to the students in the briefing room of the Challenger Learning Center. PANTAGRAPH/Steve Smedley
Holy Family Catholic School seventh grader Cami McDonald looks over instructions for her experiment she ran during a mission to Mars, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at the Challenger Learning Center in Normal. The students attempted to run a number of experiments that simulated the construction and operation of a Mars rover. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Holy Family Catholic School seventh graders Meadow Syrcle, left, and Clare McCormack measure the distance of a light source to a solar panel as they attempt to design a power supply for a Mars rover during their mission to Mars, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013, at the Challenger Learning Center in Normal. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Kelly Huey, a third grade teacher at Heyworth elementary school is zipped into a replica of a space suit by Janet Moore, Challenger Learning Center Flight Director during a March Break session for teachers sponsored by the Regional Office of Education, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. (Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Robert Ryan, an installation speacialist with Design and Production Inc., of Lorton, Virginia, tested a glove box during installation of the Challenger Learning Center's space station simulator, Monday afternoon. Crews are installing several workstations that will be used by teachers to teach four different types of space simulations. Installation of the simulator will be complete within two weeks.
Challenger Learning Center Flight Director Janet Moore, left, works with WGLT program director Mike McCurdy, during planning for WGLT's Uncommon Knowledge. In the background are Illinois State University assistant professor of chemistry Craig McLauchlan, and director orf education labs physics department Jay Ansher.
Pantagraph higher education reporter Lenore Sobota, watches the results of her computation as her Mars mission safely arrives at the landing zone during a media mission at the Challenger Learning Center, Monday, Oct. 8, 2012. (The Pantagraph, Sarah Gardner)
Grace Corrigan, mother of teacher and astronaut Christa McAuliffe, signs a photograph Friday morning at the Challenger Learning Center in Bloomington.
Grace Corrigan, mother of teacher and austronaut Christa McAuliffe, holds a photograph of the Challenger crew while speaking Friday morning at the Challenger Learning Center in Bloomington, Feb. 24, 2006.
Becky Thomas of Normal brought her nephews Will McNamara, 6, right, and Patrick, 8, out of photo at left, to Saturday's Space Day at the Challenger Learning Center in Normal on Saturday May 7, 2011. The event celebrates 2011 Space Day. Children learned how to build and launch model rockets, along with listening to scientists and astronomers from Heartland Community College, Illinois State University, the Twin City Amateur Astronomers and a local model rocket club. (The Pantagraph/STEVE SMEDLEY)
Flight Director Janet Moore, facing the camera, worked with people during a simulated space mission for the media. This is in the space capsule.
Walker Adams, an electrician wtih Weber Electric, began taking apart the lighting system in the space station at Challenger Learning Center, Monday, November 30, 2009. The center is moving to Heartland Community College this week. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Kelly Cochran, flight director at the Challenger Learning Center, helped Josh Neisler, 13, and Dakota Hall, 13, understand their duties in mission control, Monday, November 30, 2009. The middle school students flew the last mission at the center located at Central Illinois Regional Airport. The center is moving to Heartland Community College this week. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Ryan Balding, 13, an eigth grader at Riverton Middle School, communicates with mission control from the space station during a mission at the Challenger Learning Center, Monday, November 30, 2009. The middle school students flew the last mission at the center located at Central Illinois Regional Airport. The center is moving to Heartland Community College this week. (The Pantagraph, David Proeber)
Janet Moore, flight director, at the Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum examined the flight communications center inside the learning center's space station simulator.
Janet Moore, left, flight director, and Stacey Shrewsbury, assistant flight director, describe how students will use the space station simulator at the Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum.
Matt Greenlee, 17, signs a memorial of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew members Saturday at the Challenger Learning Center in Bloomington. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the day the space shuttle disaster.
Two-year-old Alex Hoxie and his babysitter Nell Fleming, of Bloomington, look at models Saturday at the Challenger Learning Center in Bloomington. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the day the space shuttle disaster.
Janet Moore, lead flight director, answers questions Saturday morning at the Challenger Learning Center in Bloomington. Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the day the space shuttle disaster.
LeRoy Elementary School student Ricky Vermaat, 11, of LeRoy talks to Flight Director Kelly Cochrane during the simulated flight exercise. The students enjoyed a day of learning at the Challenger Learning Center Tuesday morning. (The Pantagraph/LORI ANN COOK) (December 16, 2008)
LeRoy Elementary School student Deborah Bargmann, 11, of LeRoy touches the static electric generator as classmates touch her back producing shocking results.The students enjoyed a day of learning at the Challenger Learning Center Tuesday morning. (The Pantagraph/LORI ANN COOK) (December 16, 2008)
After pouring vineger over baking soda a participant maps out the "lava flow" patterns with playdoe during the Challenger Learning Center Space Camp at The Image Air Hanger in Bloomington.
The Challenger Learning Center at Heartland Community Center led by Mission Commander Stacey Shrewsbury is one of three centers testing a high school program focusing on earth. Pontiac High School students worked through the mission, Monday, March, 4, 2013. The Pantagraph, Lori Ann Cook-Neisler
Fran Romine (SP) with the Prairie Aviation Museum and the Challenger Learning Center.
State Farm employees Janice Keckritz, left, Bonnie Kuebler, center, and Kyra Hansen, right, experienced their first mission at the Challenger Learning Center.
Astronauts from Grove Elementary School are bathed in a flashing red emergency lgiht as they deal with an emergency in the space station during a mission at the Challenger Learning Center.
Susan Evans, a flight director at Challenger Learning Center, left, helps Presleigh Warner, 11,, a fifth grader at Grove Elementary School, work through her mission in the center's space station, Monday.
Jayla Tennyson, 11, a fifth-grader at Grove Elementary School, learns how to operate a ground-based communications station as flight director Joe Vadala shows her how to use the console on Feb. 3 at the Challenger Learning Center. The facility will receive fundraising help through the Multicultural Leadership Program.
Challenger Learning Center Flight Director Janet Moore held a sample of Aerogel used to collect space dust. The Aerogel is the worlds lightest solid made of air and glass.
Thirteen year-old Riley Dittus, of Heyworth, attatched solar panels as one of the final touches to a model International Space Station he and several other campers were building underwater Friday morning in the swimming pool of the Ramada Inn in Bloomington. The mission, which was part of the Challenger Learning Center's Space Camp, allowed campers to experience a weightless environment.
Working as a mission specialist, eleven year-old Taylor Kirby, of Carlock, placed a module as she helped build a model of the International Space Station underwater at the Ramada Inn swimming pool Friday morning. The mission, which was part of the Challenger Learning Center's week-long Space Camp, allowed campers to experience Newton's laws of motion in a simulated weightless environment.
Challenger Learning Center lead flight director Janet Moore, warns the crew of a crisis as part of the mission in the Mars Transport Vehicle as, left to right, Lauren James, Kyle Connour, Courtney Page and Morgan Campbell monitor the mission.
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