To the Moon & Beyond

For All humankind

The Soviets sent the first person into space on April 12, 1961. President John F. Kennedy challenged our nation “to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to earth.” It took eight years and three NASA programs - Mercury, Gemini and Apollo – to get the United States to The Moon. The Space Launch System (the Shuttle Program) has built upon all that we learned to get to the Moon and enabled us to continue to live and work in space today.

Directions:

Below are links to the Virtual Breakout Room Challenges for each human spaceflight program, you can start with any of the challenges, once you have solved that challenge use this page to navigate to another. After you complete each one, you'll receive a set of code words that you'll use to unscramble in The Final Challenge to complete the entire To the Moon and Beyond Breakout.

Each challenge has questions that MUST be answered correctly in CAPITAL letters to advance. In the event that you run into issues you have been provided two hints. If you need a hint, send your teacher a message, but be sure to check with everyone in your group before you use a hint. If your group completes all of the challenges a prize awaits. You have 45:00 minutes to breakout. Good Luck!