Friday, January 27, 2017
Back to the Moon

Did you know that there are 30 private teams from 16 countries competing to go back to the moon for good? The prize is $30 million. A team must land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, navigate 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send video, images, and data back to Earth.

We reserved the WVU Planetarium on January 27, 2017 exclusively for retirees to see the prize- winning, full dome planetarium show Back to the Moon for Good. The show opened with the first era of space exploration and what that taught us about the Moon. Then we saw the engineering and innovative steps toward the eventual human and robotic presence on the Moon.

It was exciting and interesting to see how humans are working to get to the moon again.