STEAM education programs that are out of this world! No longer affiliated with Challenger Center.
02/20/2022
Only a short time left to check out the Roving with Perseverance exhibit at our base inside the National Automobile Museum in Reno (Gallery 3). Take a selfie with Perseverance and check out a full-sized wheel replica of the equipment driving on Mars right now!
01/28/2022
36 years ago we lost our beloved Challenger crew. Today we pause & remember Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E. McNair, Gregory B. Jarvis, & Christa McAuliffe. We continue to honor the crew’s legacy each and every day. https://bit.ly/3KKcdV4
12/10/2021
Tickets still available for Science Saturday: Christmas in Space--our final public event of the year. Tickets and info at:
Science Saturday: Christmas in Space! Enjoy a Holiday celebration that's Out of This World!
12/06/2021
NASA is proud to announce its 2021 Class of NASA Astronaut candidates – a position more than 12,000 people applied for. These 10 individuals will begin their training here in Houston in January.
They are:
👨🚀 Nichole Ayers, an Air Force fighter pilot from Divide, Colorado.
👨🚀 Marcos Berrios, an Air Force helicopter test pilot from Guaynabo, Puerto Rico.
👨🚀 Christina Birch, a bioengineer and Team USA Track Cyclist from Gilbert, Arizona.
👨🚀 Deniz Burnham, a drilling engineer from Wasilla, Alaska.
👨🚀 Luke Delaney, a NASA Langley Research Pilot from Debary, Florida.
👨🚀 Andre Douglas, a Space Systems Engineer from Chesapeake, Virginia.
👨🚀 Jack Hathaway, a Navy test pilot from South Windsor, Connecticut.
👨🚀 Anil Menon, a Medical Director at SpaceX from Minneapolis, Minnesota.
👨🚀 Christopher Williams, a physicist from Potomac, Maryland.
👨🚀 Jessica Wittner, a Navy test Pilot from Clovis, California.
Get to know them: https://go.nasa.gov/3osEoif
10/20/2021
Join us on November 13th for Science Saturday: Eating in Space! Details and tickets:
Science Saturday: Eating in Space Calling All Gastronauts! Eat like an Astronaut and look at systems for growing space food!
09/30/2021
Kids! Experience the Best of Both Worlds--Cars AND Mars! Students in grades 3 through 5 can participate in half-day hands-on workshops NEXT WEEK during Fall Break.
Cars & Mars, Fall Break Camp Half-Day S.T.E.A.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) Camp for kids grades 3-5. October 4-8, 2021 9am to Noon
09/18/2021
The National Automobile Museum (where we are based) is participating in tomorrow's Smithsonian Museum Day--free admission (see https://smithsonianmag.com/museumday/museum-day-2021/ for details). Just outside our Mission Control area (from 9:30am to Noon), we'll be featuring a variety of fun and informative hands-on activities about living and working on the Moon and Mars. See you there!
09/16/2021
In the News! The most recent Edible Reno-Tahoe magazine features a story about our Science Saturday programs--especially our Eating in Space event in November--YUM! Tickets and info: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/nevada-space-center-16465274733