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DECEMBER 2005: PSF enters into partnership with the Challenger Learning Center of Woodstock, Illinois. FEBRUARY 2004: PSF enters into a research partnership for Polar Studies with the University of Innsbruck, Austria. JANUARY 2003: PSF moves into a new central office in Crystal Lake, Illinois. JANUARY 2002: PSF undertakes a third Antarctic scientific expedition to the Pecora Escarpment and to the South Pole in a continued effort to collect meteorites and ice samples for the study of microorganisms. JANUARY 2000: A second Antarctic expedition to the Thiel Mountains and to the South Pole takes PSF in search for meteorites and microorganisms. JULY 1999: PSF conducts a geological and solar eclipse expedition to Turkey with 32 participants. JUNE 1998: PSF enters into a a meteorite research partnership with NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. FEBRUARY 1998: PSF conducts a Solar Eclipse expedition to the Caribbean (Aruba) with 42 participants to view a total solar eclipse. JANUARY 1998: PSF conducts its first Antarctic scientific expedition to Patriot Hills and to the South Pole, in search of meteorites. DECEMBER 1994: Mrs. Violetta DuPont donates the entire James M. DuPont Meteorite Collection, which today is the 10th largest meteorite collection in the world. JANUARY 1994: PSF conducts its first Antarctic educational expedition. AUGUST 1991: PSF is the principal force behind construction of the Karl G. Henize Observatory in Palatine, Illinois. FEBRUARY 1989: PSF is chartered as a not-for-profit organization. ANNUAL BENEFIT DINNER SPEAKERS:
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