Back to the Moon
for Good

Back to the Moon for Good begins with the first days of space exploration in the late 1960s and early 1970s. We see what that era of landers and orbiters taught us about our nearest neighbor including the discovery of the Moon’s origin, composition, structure and the accessibility of raw materials on its surface.

The Google Lunar XPRIZE is introduced as the largest incentivized competition to date, designed to democratize space and create new opportunities for eventual human and robotic presence on the Moon. We see the engineering and innovation steps taken by the internationally distributed teams competing to land a spacecraft on the Moon and vie for additional prizes. We highlight the human spirit of competition and collaboration as teams take on this audacious challenge.

Who will win the $30 million Google Lunar XPRIZE? The audience is taken through a successful launch, landing and lunar surface travel. The show ends with a stunning glimpse of a plausible scenario for our future on the Moon.

Produced by NSC Creative and XPRIZE Foundation

Narrated by Tim Allen

Runtime: 25 min

Audience: suitable for grades 4 and up

Foreign Language: available in Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean and Chinese

Back to the Moon

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Center for Aerospace Education
Hokulani Imaginarium
Windward Community College

updated: 1/14/22