Mission Mobile at Explore Children's Museum

Mission Mobile uses Dreamflight Adventures simulator software and missions along with unique programs of its own. Gary and Sarah Gardiner founded Dreamflight Adventures. Gary's multiple trips to the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center as a young camper years ago was his inspiration to create Dreamflight Adventures. That inspiration has led to multiple simulators east of the Mississippi River all of which can trace their ancestry back to the first starship, the USS Voyager in Pleasant Grove.

Facts about the Mission Mobile program are listed below.

Mission Mobile Partnering Schools and Organizations in the Washington DC Area

Barnard Elementary School
C.W. Harris Elementary School
DC Parks and Recreation Summer Camps
DCPS Summer Enrichment Program
Dep. of Ed., Office of Education Technology
The Field School
Friendship Public Charter School (Chamberlain Campus)
Garfield Inquiry-Based Preparatory Academy
H.D. Cooke Elementary School
Horizons Day Camps—Maret School
J. H. Johnson Middle School
LAMB Public Charter School, Missouri Ave Campus
LAMB Public Charter School, Perry Street Campus
Levine Music (THEARC campus)
Langley Elementary School
LaSalle Backus Education Campus
Marie Reed Elementary School (via Higher Achievement)
Martha's Table
Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School
Murch Elementary School
National Building Museum
Payne Elementary School
Riverdale Park Station
Rose L. Hardy Elementary School
School Without Walls at Francis Stevens
SEED Public Charter School
Simon Elementary School
Sitar Arts Center
Smithsonian, Freer and Sackler Galleries Smithsonian Office of Education and Access
Stoddert Elementary School Summer Camp
Stuart-Hobson Middle School
The Field School
Washington International School
Washington Latin Public Charter School
Washington School for Girls
Whittier STEM Education Campus
Washington Tennis & Education Foundation

Thank You Volunteers. You Are the Wind in the Space Center's Sails

The Christa McAuliffe Space Center thanks its enormous volunteer force. This year the total number of volunteer hours exceeded 14,000 hours.

Volunteering is the life blood of every Utah County Space EdVenture Center: Christa McAuliffe Space Center, Renaissance Academy's The Space Place, Lakeview Academy's Lions Gate Space Center, Telos Academy's Discovery Space Center, and the American Heritage School's Space Center. Volunteers do everything from operating the second chair position in many simulators, to playing multiple acting roles, to cleaning, to building props, and of course supervising campers and public programs.

The Space Center's Legacy in Pictures
The Foundation of the Engineering Department at the CMSC. April 2005

Today, the Christa McAuliffe Space Center has an Engineering Department headed by Jade Hansen. Both Space Center volunteers and staff are members. They meet on a regular basis to work on projects like 3D printing and simulator engineering panels and maintenance.

The Space Center's first Engineering Department started in April 2005. Sadly, it wasn't long lived due to the difficulty of keeping it staffed with qualified people, but the kick off event was fantastic. It met for the first time on April 2, 2005, a Saturday morning. Dr. Long from BYU's Electrical Engineering Department was the presenter along with a few of his BYU students. The goal of the inaugural meeting was to build computer boards to assist the Dr. Long's students. His class was designing and building the Starship Voyager's Isolinear Chip / Engineering Station on the bridge.

Our volunteers learn about soldering a computer board. Jeremiah Robinson in the black shirt.

Everyone hard at work on their computer boards. In this photo you see Taylor Thomas, Spencer Robinson and several other Space Center volunteers.

Brent Anderson, in the white shirt, was the Space Center's Programming Department Head. Kirby Glad behind him in the striped shirt was a long time Space Center supported and contributor.