The Challenge Project illustrates the boundlessness of human potential at every age and highlights human exploration of remote environments. This project blends the ideas of challenge confrontation, physical fitness, lifelong learning, and space exploration in the context of a unique NASA Life Sciences experience. The specific focus in the area of human aging marks Mission STS-95 as the first of a series of collaborations between NASA Life Sciences and the NIH's National Institute on Aging.

Thanks to the generosity of ISD's anonymous benefactor and an invitation from NASA's Life Sciences Division, our students participated in an amazing adventure that began in May 1998.  Although the Challenge Project has "officially" ended, our journey continues as we celebrate John Glenn's return to space and the things we have learned from his participation in Mission STS-95.  This web site provides a chronological journal of these experiences.  Although these photos are "worth a thousand words," they cannot do justice to the education, the laughter, and the memories we carry in our hearts from this adventure.  We are forever grateful to the people in NASA's Life Sciences Division for including us in this project and to our anonymous benefactor who funded our involvement.  Special thanks go to Dr. Joan Vernikos, Dr. Rosalind Grymes, Dennis Chamberland, Bonnie McClain, Joe Bishop, Linda Conrad (Quest Team Project Manager and designer of NASA's Challenge Project Webspace), Karen Dodson, Robin Folsom, Christopher Roosa, and James Cameron.


              
Day 5:  The Blue Grotto
Day 1:  Flying to Key Largo Day 6:  The Manatees and Crystal River
Day 2:  Scuba Diving in Coral Reefs Day 7:  The Kennedy Space Center
Day 3: Activities in the Emerald Lagoon The Scott Carpenter Station
Day 4:  Mandatory Hurricane Evacuation NASA's Official Website for the Challenge Project



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