LEAD ORGANIZATION

Barbra Sobhani

Mark Kettles

Favorite thing about the Moon: It's going to be our second home, soon enough. Thanks to GLEE, NASA, and Others all contributing to Mission Moon.

Emma Herzog

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon's gravity pulls on Earth's ocean, creating high and low tides

Aur Shalev Merin

Favorite thing about the Moon: Only 12 People have ever walked on the moon! Can't wait for our mission to help change that.

Evan Taylor

Favorite thing about the Moon: The lunar regolith is negatively charged in the nighttime and positively in the daytime. 

Jonathan Leites

Favorite thing about the Moon: little known fact is that the moon has a liquid outer core, just like earth, and the deepest we have managed to dig from the surface is less than 10ft!

Luke Bassett

Favorite thing about the Moon: It has at least 324 craters of eternal darkness

Collin Gibb

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moons surface is less reflective then a piece of coal.

Jack Diamond

Ashwin Francis

Favorite thing about the Moon: The Moon actually smells like spent gunpowder. 

Fiona Radebaugh

Favorite thing about the Moon: my favorite thing about the moon is looking at supermoons!

Jackson Gabbard

Favorite thing about the Moon: It is the product of a tremendous astroid collusion with Earth during its formation.

Ethan Letendre

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is shrinking almost 50 meters every 100 million years.

Nick Starkey

Favorite thing about the Moon: The eclipses 

Gavin Smith

Favorite thing about the Moon: Footprints left by astronauts on the moon could be there for millions of years!

Margarita Alperovich

Favorite thing about the Moon: There is no real Dark Side of the moon, Just a far side Earth can't see

Londyn Naden

Favorite thing about the Moon: Due to lack of wind, a lot of disturbances on the moon like footprints or craters will be there for millions of years. 

Julia Floyd

Favorite thing about the Moon: We only see one side of the moon because it is tidal locked with Earth.

Jake Fricke

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is actually an oblique spheroid

Maxx Menzies

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is the 5th largest satellite in the solar system, and is the largest in comparison to its planet's size.

Alexander Diener

Favorite thing about the Moon: While the Sun is about 400 times larger than the Moon, it is also 400 times further away which is what allows for total solar eclipses.

Sofia Ibarra

Favorite thing about the Moon: It is made out of cheese! And that it's pretty big compared to its host planet!

Samhita Donthula  

Favorite thing about the Moon: How it affects the tides on Earth.

Phoebe Mertens 

Favorite thing about the Moon: How the moon connects us all together, its in everyone's night sky!

Shreya Santosh

Favorite thing about the Moon: How it affects the tides on Earth.

Madison Ferraro

Favorite thing about the Moon: the leading theory of the origin of the Moon is actually that it was once part of Earth.

Jackson Stillman

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon is moving away about 1.5 inches every year.

Nicole Miltonberger

Shrey Jayesh Tejani

Favorite thing about the Moon: Moon’s South Pole regolith has helium-3, an isotope which can power the Earth for decades without producing harmful radioactive waste

Laura Tisher

Favorite thing about the Moon: The Moon drifts about 3.8 centimeters farther away from Earth each year.

Gabby Yannota

Favorite thing about the Moon: The first living beings to complete a full orbit around the Moon were two tortoises.

Konstantinos Stathopulos

Favorite thing about the Moon: As Earth's natural satellite, we can bounce radio signals off the moon. The Navy did this in the 1950s to send messages from DC to Hawaii before the first communications satellites.

Richard Mannion

Electrical Engineering

Favorite thing about the Moon: There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark.

Anuja Dhananjay Joshi

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Favorite thing about the Moon: Without the Moon, Earth’s climate could be much more chaotic.

Daniel Kroneberger

Mechanical Engineering 

Favorite thing about the Moon: The moon sees a 500°F swing in temperature every lunar day (~30 earth days)

Adam Elliott

Computer Science

Favorite thing about the Moon: The Moon was likely formed from the coalescence of debris from the collision of Earth with another celestial body commonly called Theia.

Jackson Doyle

Favorite thing about the Moon:  It is tidally locked with Earth, which is why we always see the same side

Tesla Chin

Aerospace Engineering

Favorite thing about the Moon: Is that it causes the tides.

Jacqueline Serrano

Favorite thing about the Moon:  Many animals use lunar cues for spawning, nesting, and migration.

Max Jambor

Computer Science

Favorite thing about the Moon: When Rayleigh scattering makes it look super orange.

Jadon Lee

Favorite thing about the Moon:  The moon experiences tidal events from the Earth's gravitational pull.

Daniil Baskakov

Aerospace Engineering

Favorite thing about the Moon:

It is made of cheese.