What is the Challenger Learning Center?
KEITH: The Challenger Learning Center is a network of educational organizations. We have a big umbrella organization. We have 50 or so learning centers scattered across the United States where students can go in. We have a mission control where they can do simulations of missions. Mostly it is an educational organization focusing on stem topics. CHRIS: You’re very intense. You’re concentrating. Is this going to be a difficult task getting over these rocks? LUCIEN: My teammates don’t necessarily like me going over this stuff but it does prove the vehicle. They don’t like it when I start but by the time we get to the end, it’s good stuff. BLAIR: Your latest incarnation of, if you will, of ATHLETE. JULIE: That’s right. We decided the first one wasn’t big enough, so we went bigger. BLAIR: Was there an intentionality behind making it so ominous looking? I get scared when I see it. JULIE: It’s actually a half scale model. The one we’ll send to the moon is twice as big in every dimension. BLA
