Watch Eagle Has Landed at the Strasenburgh Planetarium(playing through August)

Learn how to moonwalk

Try astronaut ice cream (available at the RMSC gift shop)

Eat a Moonpie

Take a photograph of the full moon on July 16

Read Moonshot: The Flight of Apollo 11 by Brian Floca

View NASA’s Apollo 11 Image Gallery

Listen to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon

Build your own telescope

Ask a family member what they remember about Apollo 11

Watch the movie Hidden Figures

Discover what lives in one cubic foot of your backyard

Explore the connection between the moon and the tides

Learn about the moon in di�erent cultures

Make a moon phase calendar

Discuss what you would name our moon

Make craters in flour

Participate in the Globe At Night international citizen science project

Make a UV bracelet representing the solar system

Read Look Up!: Henrietta Leavitt, Pioneering Woman Astronomer by Robert Burleigh

Learn about the moons of other planets

Look at Earth’s moon landing sites

Keep a moon observation journal

Design a parachute using a napkin, string, and payload to land on a target

Calculate your weight on the moon

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Create baking soda and water moon rocks

Read the biography of an astronaut

Learn about di�erent lunar calendars

Make Oreo cookie moon phases

Create a footprint

Construct a time capsule

Watch the movie Apollo 11

Howl at the moon

Discuss what you think about an elevator to the moon

Create a poem about the night sky

Read Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown

Watch A Trip to the Moon in RMSC’s Science on a Sphere exhibit

Launch the Rocket of the Day

Prepare for future landings and test drive a Mars rover with Oculus Go

Experience arcs of lightning that play moon songs inElectricity Theater

Get hands-on with Earth and Space Exploration experiments

Learn how NASA uses vacuum chambers with the Upstate N.Y. Chapter of the Vacuum Society

Check out the Backyard Lander: a replica half-scale lunar module on RMSC’s lawn built by Rochester’s own Barry Nobles

Build your own lunar module with marshmallows and toothpicks

Step back in time and relax in RMSC’s 1960s living room, where you can watch original footage of the moon landing

Snap a photo with RMSC astronauts

Check out an out of this world Lego display created by the Rochester Lego Use Group

It is rocket science! The Monroe Astronautical Rocket Society will be sharing what they know about rocketry

The Astronomy Section of the Rochester Academy of Sciences will be here to answer all of your questions about the night sky this summer

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