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2. Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center - Wikipedia

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   The Christa McAuliffe Space Center (known as the McAuliffe Space Center or CMSC ), in Pleasant Grove, Utah, teaches school children about space and is visited by students from around the world. [1] It has a number of space flight simulators . The center, named for educator Christa McAuliffe, who was killed in the Challenger disaster, was ...

3. National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program

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   History. The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program was established in 1988 by the US Congress following the success of similar scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs. In 1989, the program was given over to ...

4. Cosmosphere - Wikipedia

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   Cosmosphere. /  38.065304°N 97.921344°W  / 38.065304; -97.921344. Cosmosphere is a space museum and STEM education center in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. It was previously known as the Kansas Cosmosphere. The museum houses over 13,000 spaceflight artifacts—the largest combined collection of US and Russian spaceflight artifacts ...

5. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

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   Endowment. USA: $1,290,000. Website. seds.org, ukseds.org, sedsturkiye.com. Students for the Exploration and Development of Space ( SEDS) is a non-profit international student organization whose purpose is to drive space advocacy of space exploration and development through educational and engineering projects.

6. Kalpana Chawla - Wikipedia

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   Kalpana Chawla. Kalpana Chawla (17 March 1962 – 1 February 2003) [2] was an Indian-born American astronaut and aerospace engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to fly to space. [3] [4] She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist and primary robotic arm operator aboard STS-87.

7. Student Spaceflight Experiments Program - Wikipedia

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   History. The program was launched in June 2010, by NCESSE in the U.S. and by the Clarke Institute internationally. As of 2018, SSEP has sponsored fourteen missions to LEO – two on board the Space Shuttle, and twelve to the ISS – with a thirteenth mission to the ISS announced in March 2018, and expected to fly in the spring/summer of 2019.