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This 30-minute film shares the powerful story behind the DPS Challenger Learning Center, which is one of only 32 Challenger Learning Centers worldwide. Through exclusive interviews with June Scobee Rodgers (founding Chair of Challenger Center and widow of Challenger Space Shuttle Commander Richard “Dick” Scobee), retired astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger (STS-131) and Jim Rowley (Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton and Semi-Finalist for Teacher in Space), the documentary highlights the lasting impact of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy and how it inspired a global movement dedicated to sparking students’ interest in Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.  Mission: Inspire explores how a moment of national heartbreak transformed into a mission of hope — empowering generations of students to dream boldly, explore fearlessly, and reach for the stars.

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00:01after the tragedy the families of the lost astronauts came together and wanted to do

00:09something in memorial for their families well nobody believed I could do it they said this

00:16has never been done you're just a teacher you know and I said watch me once we had built the

00:24first Center President Bush said we need more of these centers it just immediately was clear to

00:31me that Dayton Ohio birthplace of aviation had to have a center and along I came when students come

00:40to the center they take on the role of mission controllers and astronauts and engineers it's

00:46taking you out of your everyday environment and putting you in the environment of flight a number

00:53of educators have come back and said that they were inspired to be a teacher and and it began

01:00with Krista McAuliffe but then it continued when they went to a Challenger Learning Center the

01:06community response was overwhelmingly positive teachers from around the Miami Valley are

01:11preparing for the mission of a lifetime as a student being able to command your very own space lab we

01:17have main engine start dreams have a way of manifesting themselves three ideas have a way of coming into

01:27this world two we created all these grand things that you can find at the Challenger Center now and

01:35right here in Dayton one is a prime example of what can be done liftoff of the 25th space shuttle

01:43mission and

01:44this planet has cleared the tower

01:47control program

01:49watch a roll

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Mission: Inspire - The Challenger Center Story (2026)

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