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. |