Your contribution helps create and sustain a lively learning environment for children, families and learners of all ages. In the spirit of our namesakes, NASA Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe and America's first astronaut, Admiral Alan Shepard, together we can inspire the next generation to Reach for the Stars!

To make your gift, please select the appropriate option below—choose “Individual Contribution” if you are donating in the name of an individual and choose “Business Contribution” if you are donating in the name of your business or organization. Thank you for your generosity!

If you'd prefer to mail your donation - or if you’d like to have a conversation with us about making an impact with your gift, finding out more about what specific needs we have or special projects we are planning for the future, or want to learn more about sponsorship opportunities, please get in touch:

Katie Marinoff, Director of Visitor Services
McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center
2 Institute Drive
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-7827 x104
kmarinoff@starhop.com

Adopt a Star

Adopt a star in the Discovery Center's planetarium and help support the educational mission of the Discovery Center. With your gift you may honor a loved one with a memoriam, celebrate a graduation, a wedding or birth of a child, adopt a star in your own name, or have a quotation of your choice shown next to your star during every Tonight's Sky planetarium show for one year (Star level) or ten years (Galaxy level). 20 characters maximum, including spaces. You may also choose your favorite constellation and we will pick the brightest available star for you; or let us pick the constellation.

To adopt a star, please click on the donate button above, indicate a donation of $125 for a one-year adoption or $1000 for a 10-year adoption, and email Katie Marinoff (kmarinoff@starhop.com) the name you would like to see beside your star.

Opinions 4 Good Partnership

Looking for a new way to support us? Join Opinions4Good and get paid to share your insights, while also helping to support our mission of inspiring every generation to reach for the stars. 

As a member, you’ll be offered regular opportunities to take paid surveys online. You can then choose to donate 25% to 100% of your survey earnings back to The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center. This is a great way to donate from the comfort of your own home, and without opening your own wallet. 

Click here to join!

AmazonSmile

AmazonSmile is a simple way for you to support the Discovery Center every time you shop, at no additional cost to you! Instead of going to Amazon.com, use your Amazon account at Smile.Amazon.com for all the same purchasing options. Then, choose the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center as your charity, and AmazonSmile will donate 0.5% of your eligible purchases to support our educational mission!

Donation of items: If you have items that you wish to donate, please contact us first before bringing them by, as we have limited collections space. 

Please note: We do not accept any old newspapers, magazines or scrapbooks. While we understand that they may be valuable to you, we are very unlikely to display them and have no room to store them. They present a cost rather than a benefit to the Discovery Center and will have to be discarded if left here. Thank you for understanding.