"Flight to the Moon" is currently not scheduled, but is available for private group showings.

Running time of the full presentation is about 30 minutes.

Admission:
(All prices include Museum Admission)
Adults (19 yrs and over): $8.00, Children (5-18 yrs) $5.50
Young Children (4 and under) $2.50
Friends of the Museum Adults (with Membership Card): $2.50
Friends of the Museum Children: $2.00
Faculty, Staff and Students of UNL (with valid UNL ID): $3.00
AAM/ASTC Members(with member card): $3.00
Employees of Nebraska museums (with staff ID): $3.00
Tickets are sold at the front desk of the Museum

Educator Resources:
LCROSS Fact Sheet
LRO Fact Sheet
LCROSS Storybook
On the Moon Educator Guide

On June 18, 2009, two unmanned spacecraft, the LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) and LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite) launched together in one Atlas 5 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center. The LRO spacecraft will map the moon in unprecedented detail. LCROSS will deliver the Centaur impactor into a shaded lunar crater, creating a plume for the spacecraft to fly into and collect data to see if water is present.



The Centaur booster rocket will impact inside the permanently shaded part of the crater Cabeus A near the moon's south pole on October 9 at 7:30am EDT. After impact, a the show will be updated to reflect new information.



"Flight To the Moon" will be accompanied by a short fulldome presentation of Amateur Astrophotography (produced under a grant from the Nebraska Spacegrant Consortium) which takes audiences from the Moon to distant galaxies and also a short introduction to the current night sky.

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will circle the moon in an elliptical polar orbit, periodically dipping to within 30 miles of the lunar surface, to photograph the moon with more than ten times the detail of any previous lunar survey. The LRO will map the Moon's chemical resources, look for ice, search for potential landing sites and measure the radiation environment.

The second spacecraft, the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) will ride piggybacked onto the LRO until shortly after the Centaur upper stage rocket accelerates them on a course for the moon. After this final burn of the Centaur rocket, the LCROSS and LRO will separate. The LRO's course will be adjusted to enter into lunar orbit while LCROSS's path (both the Centaur rocket and the LCROSS observing platform) will be directed towards an impact near the moon's South Pole, where water ices are thought to exist within lunar craters that are in perpetual shadow