Destiny Module
Destination SPACE is working in collaboration with our academic, private sector, and Katherine Johnson IV&V ERC partners to retrofit our 3/4 scale Destiny Module to serve as not only a close replica of the US module on the International Space Station but also to serve as a mobile aerospace engineering and science STEM Center.
Our Proposal
By working with our partners to retrofit the Destiny Module, Destination SPACE would have the opportunity to expand our reach and more fully realize our mission to expose underrepresented and underserved student populations to STEM opportunities in an aerospace engineering, science, and applications curriculum. Working closely with our colleagues in the potential mobile STEM Center that would be provided by a properly outfitted Destiny Module, Destination SPACE will build upon our existing curriculum to ensure that we are addressing the skill sets and capacity building in STEM needed throughout Appalachia. We will work closely with teachers in our region and use the Module to go to their schools to engage them in aerospace STEM first and then work with the teachers as they engage their students; the Destiny Module becomes a mobile teach-the-teachers STEM Center.
History
The history of the Destiny Module is quite murky, we will continue to expand this section as we learn more about it’s past.
Prior to Destination SPACE taking possession of the Destiny Module, it was located at Morehead State University under the authority of Johnson Space Center. Since transferring the ownership it was relocated to the NASA IV&V Facility in Fairmont WV.