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Educational Project

Lehmann Engineering, Inc. is extremely proud to be the Structural Engineer of Record for the renovation of this unique facility. The Scobee Challenger Learning Center will be merged with the San Antonio College Observatory and Planetarium to create a one of a kind learning opportunity for all ages. Challenger Learning Centers offer realistic mock-ups of a Mission Control and an orbiting space station. Students join teams at computer consoles or onboard the orbiting space lab, rev up their imaginations, and work together toward the mission’s goal, whether it is the launching of a probe or the interception of a comet.

The facility consists of a new learning center, gift shop, and star gazing deck. The existing planetarium is being remodeled and the existing telescope relocated within the facility. The structural system is a creative combination of structural steel and cast in place concrete that incorporates the existing thin shell concrete dome.