In today’s business environment your most valuable assets are your employees. Their training and motivation are keys to your success. You need them to work together as a team; to instill trust, responsibility, loyalty and respect.

Our programs build enthusiasm. They’re about interpreting data, drawing conclusions, solving problems, working as a team, communicating quickly and clearly, solving problems creatively and making good business decisions – even under stress!

Simulated Space Mission: Return to the Moon

Have fun flying a simulated space mission, Return to the Moon, while focusing on team building, communication, decision making, problem solving and the skills necessary to succeed in today’s marketplace.

Groups of 15 to 32 can participate in the mission.

This two and a half hour mission also brings with it the use of a meeting room in the Center for an hour before or after your mission. This team building experience takes your team out of the normal work environment and places them in an unusual situation. Through this unusual environment, peoples’ natural habits and methods become apparent.

After returning to Earth, the Flight Directors will debrief your team pointing to the challenges and successes of the mission and their overall team performance. The Flight Directors will facilitate a discussion to determine how the skills they used to make this Moon mission a success are vital to your team’s corporate mission.

Mission Overview

Upon arrival at the Challenger Center, ‘space-travelers’ will cross the elevated gantry bridge and enter the world of the future. Your Mission Commander will greet your team and escort them to the Mission Briefing Room where they will be oriented to mission objectives. The group will be assigned to their mission stations as Mission Control officers, or Space Craft Crew. Their mission, should they decide to accept it ….is to Return to the Moon.

Composed of hydrogen and oxygen-the elements that make up water – the lunar ice provides a core resource for long-term human presence on the lunar surface. There have been a series of successful robotic missions designed to prove the concept that the ice could be harvested. Once collected, the ice can be turned into drinking water, oxygen for life support of a lunar base, nutrients as the basis for agriculture, components needed for rocket fuel, or when combined with lunar soil – the basics for construction materials.

As part of the Return to the Moon mission, this crew of astronauts will land on the surface of the Moon. The astronauts will establish a permanent base to establish an observation program to study the Earth and other Solar System bodies without the interference of the Earth’s atmosphere and test the feasibility of a self-sustaining, off-planet settlement. In addition to verifying the best site for the establishment of the lunar base, during the course of the mission the crew will retrieve a probe stranded in space, repair it, and build and launch a landing site evaluation probe.

The Return to the Moon mission begins with the spacecraft in Earth’s orbit and the Mission Control team monitoring the crew’s status. The crew aboard the spacecraft will leave Earth’s orbit and travel to the Moon using the latest in transport technology to reduce the travel time. The crew will navigate their spacecraft to the Moon and plot an acceptable orbit.

Together the crew will place their spaceship into lunar orbit and make the important decision of the location of the first permanent lunar base. To gather the data needed to analyze potential lunar base sites, the crew will have to function as a team and utilize their best communication and analytical skills. This mission experience provides participants a unique opportunity to improve their teamwork, communication, problem solving, and decision-making skills in a fun, interactive environment. But, be prepared for the unexpected… you never know what awaits your team in space!