GG Moon Activities

There were several different activities available while we were on the moon.

Outside activities and excursions [edit section]

• Field of firsts
  • Place your footprint in a field that has been roped off, where you are guaranteed to be the first human in history to have stepped on that spot
  • Each person receives an assigned square - you are not allowed to touch the other squares
  • Your boot has your name and date engraved in it
• Citizen science - different measurements for PhD students
• Guided Lunar hikes
  • 3 different choices
    • through a crater and around a peak
    • around the hotel, storage areas and towards the landing zone
    • to the top of a peak and back (with special view of the earth)
• Lunar Terrain Vehicle ride
• Physics and vacuum experiments
  • Dropping a feather and a hammer
  • Rock throwing
• You own camera records everything, and a photographer and several robots record everything that you do
• Visit to the science station

Inside activities [edit section]

• Exploring the moon base (/moon hotel)
  • Accommodation assignment, and familiarization with different rooms
• Lunar ball pit
• Daily exercise
• Lectures
  • Early lunar explorers and missions
  • Lunar geography and current science
  • Technical data about the ship and hotel
• Meals
• Visit by a Lunar scientist
  • We give them a crate of goods and food, they have a meal with us, then leave