What do you get when you mix an Apollo astronaut's legacy with a trio of shipping containers, the latest in VR technology, the cousin of a"Star Wars" robot and an escape room like no other?
Danielle Roosa, founder of Back to Space and granddaughter of Apollo astronaut Stu Roosa, in front of"The Lunar Light: Discovery" installation as opening in Dallas on Feb. 29, 2024.Instead, guests arrive the empty parking lot of a former shopping mall to find a collection of white conex boxes with only an inflatable astronaut as their hint they are in the right place. Once inside the first container, however, all that changes.
From there, guests board a virtual lunar shuttle to ride to the site of the impact and perform their first"moonwalk.""What's so cool about this is, as you walk into this area, we have put down some material that makes it feel like you're actually walking on the moon," Roosa told collectSPACE.