Voyage
to
Mars
Mission Overview
Your flight will consist of a 2 to 2.5 hour out-of-this-world experience at your local Challenger Learning Center. The flight comes in five parts:
All flight team members begin
with a pre-flight briefing in the Challenger Learning
Center's briefing room. Here is where you find out details about
your flight activities. |
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Half of the team then moves to the Mission
Control Center where they spend the first half of the flight as
mission controllers. The other half are transported to Space Station. |
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While in Mission Control, flight controllers
work hard to keep astronauts in Space Station working effectively
on their tasks. Half way through the mission and following a mid-flight
debriefing, flight controllers exchange positions with their counterparts
on
Space
Station to conclude the work of the flight. |
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Both halves of the mission team spend time
in Space Station doing the work of astronauts.There are anywhere
from 8 to 12 specific
tasks, and sometimes "emergencies" crop up that need to be addressed. |
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While in Space Station students get a first-hand understanding of the astronaut experience. They complete the tasks of the flight using guidance provided by Mission Controllers on Earth. |
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Support for program number HST-ED-90285.01-A was provided by NASA through a grant from the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Incorporated, under NASA contract NAS5-26555. Copyright (c) 2007 Challenger Learning Center at Prairie Aviation Museum and Challenger Learning Center of Northwest Indiana. Staff of Challenger Learning Centers and instructors of classes involved with Challenger Learning Center missions may reproduce this WebQuest guide for classroom and educational purposes. Otherwise this work may not be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed, in any form or by means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise – without the prior written permission of the copyright owners. This page is based upon the WebQuest model. |