...classes. The fifth- and sixth-grade band also will perform holiday tunes. Ninilchik School Dan Spencer, the lead flight director for the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska was at the school. He worked with students in grades three through...

...a good day to look straight up. "The best meteor shower of 2007 will be peaking today," said Dan Spencer, lead flight director of the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska in Kenai. The Geminid meteor shower began Dec. 7 and runs through...

...first-ever official hookup with a NASA astronaut aboard the orbiting space station. Leah Eskelin, the center's lead flight director, said one of the astronauts' goals, apart from their mission, is to make a contact to all 50 states via amateur...

...School students throughout were asked to submit questions which were then submitted to the Challenger Center?s Lead Flight Director Leah Eskelin, ?From our school 6th grader Denali Goodwill and 2nd grader Brent Shelton were selected, but...

...see something and get people interested in astronomy and looking at the stars," said Kathy East, assistant lead flight director at the Challenger Center. If it's cloudy, East said the Challenger Center will hold an indoor presentation...