Moonshot Museum is Pennsylvania’s first museum and the first museum in the world to focus on career and community readiness for the 21st-century space industry. 

This semester, team MoonRover works with Moonshot Museum to create a two-player immersive VR game. The game aims to inspire the guests’ imagination regarding all the possible space careers through this simulation of future lunar exploration missions.

The game is set in the 2050s, two players will take on the role of lunar explorers operating a moon rover on a series of exploration, collection, and construction missions on the moon. Lunar explorers(guests) can transform the lunar environment by building various settlements and growing plants on the lunar soil. All the efforts from the lunar explorers(guests) will be a crucial part of the lunar base constructions, as well as supporting mankind’s exploration of the wider universe.

Client

The Moonshot Museum is Pennsylvania’s first space museum and the only museum in the world to focus exclusively on career + community readiness for the 21st century space industry. Operated by the Astrobotic Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, Moonshot Museum is co-located at the headquarters of space robotics company Astrobotic, offering an unparalleled real-time window into the construction of lunar spacecraft.

Mike Hennessy | Manager of Learning & Programs

Hennessy spent more than 20 years crafting innovative programs at Carnegie Science Center, where he managed a steampunk science theater with a working foundry and built a fleet of ten traveling outreach programs. 

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