Don't expect to see desks, chalkboards, or encyclopedias when you visit the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky. Instead, you will use workstations to do experiments, computers to do research, be an astronaut in the space station, be a technician in mission control, communicate with your teammates using a headset, and use video panels to monitor your classmate's activities while they work up in space. Sound like fun? You bet it is!

E-Missions: Operation Montserrat
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Powerful Black Hole Jet Explained
30 Apr 2008
While we may never know what it looks like inside a black hole, astronomers recently obtained one of the closest views yet. The sighting allowed scientists to confirm theories about how these giant cosmic sinkholes spew out jets of particles travelling at nearly the speed of light.
Every Day is Earth Day on the International Space Station
22 Apr 2008
There may be only one place in the universe which can be the subject of 300,000 and counting photos and still never get old. It is the same place that astronauts spend hours upon hours of their free time watching, for months, yet still can't get enough. It's not a distant galaxy, or a spectacular nebula. It's simply home -- our planet Earth.

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Paintsville Creates Challenger Video
26 Feb 2008
On January 29th, 2008, Paintsville Elementary school visited the Challenger Learning Center of Kentucky, on a mission to find Comet Enke, a short period comet. Their mission was to first find Comet Enke, rendezvous with it, conduct several experiments on the way, and finally to build and launch a probe designed to study it once in range.

Jason Kinner, a teacher at Paintsville Elementary, video taped the mission. He has given us permission to provide a link to his video here. Just click on the link below, or highlight it, copy, and then paste it in the address bar on your browser:

http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=fad3dd363e893401c2db

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 Space station camp was a blast, posted on 16 Aug 2007 by clcky