Twenty-five years ago, on January 28, 1986, our nation lost seven heroes as the Challenger Space Shuttle was destroyed shortly after launch. It was a tragic day, etched in the minds of us all and in the history books of our nation.

And yet tragedy let to triumph, as the families of the astronauts created an educational program to honor the astronauts and inspire the next generation. They formed the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, with a mission to “inspire, explore and learn”. Now with a national network of 47 Challenger Learning Centers, the program takes students on simulated missions to space, reaching 400,000 students every year – over 4,000,000 during our 25 year history.

Join us for a year-long series of events, as we honor the legacy of the Challenger 7 heroes – and celebrate the accomplishments of the Challenger Learning Center network.

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BY NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING AUTHORS REBECCA MOESTA & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

Book 2 in the exciting new trilogy!

Now that JJ Wren, her brother Dylan, and friends King and Song-Ye have seen Earth’s dark future — facing an invasion by the hideous alien Kylarn — they know they have to prepare the human race. At the local Challenger Center, the mysterious Commander Zota sends JJ and her friends off on another mission, this time to the International Space Station Complex, where they meet old friends, survivors from the disaster at Moonbase Magellan … as well as a mysterious girl, Mira, who claims to be from the past. Another Star Challenger with her own mentor, just like Commander Zota. Together, they have to discover and stop the continuing plans of the alien invaders.

And the Kylarn have set their sights on conquering, or destroying, the space station, so that Earth has no protection at all!

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SILVER LININGS

My Life Before And After Challenger 7

by June Scobee Rodgers

Twenty-five years after the very public tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger, June Scobee Rodgers has written her private story—her winding path through childhood poverty, homelessness, and family dysfunction to her teenage marriage and twenty-six years of love and life with Dick Scobee. This is the story, too, of that heartbreaking day in January 1986 when Commander Scobee and his six crewmates slipped the surly bonds of Earth. That day, June’s life took a new direction that ultimately led to the creation of the Challenger Center for Space Science Education and to new love and new life with Don Rodgers. Her story of faith and triumph over adversity will inspire readers of every age.

An inspiring story of conquering hardships, encountering tragedy, demonstrating tenacity and, in creating the Challenger Centers for Space Science education, building something genuinely useful for society.

-Neil Armstrong

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