The Las Cruces Space Festival is returning in 2020 from March 30th- April 4th. We are working with the Las Cruces Public Schools to launch a poster contest aimed at Middle School Students under the theme ‘Life on Mars’. A full list of the contest rules (in English and Spanish) can be found here. They […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival will return on March 30th– April 4th 2020, providing a week of free space-related activities and events for all ages. The Las Cruces Space Festival is an annual celebration to recognize space-related activity and interest in southern New Mexico and beyond. We aim to raise awareness in our community and […]
We are pleased to say that the Hubble-inspired art exhibition ‘Our Place In Space- Las Cruces‘ will continue to operate at all seven locations for another week. Cutter Gallery will be the first location to close on April 23rd. Art and Hubble images will be displayed at NMSU Gallery until April 26th and at the […]
The Las Cruces Public Schools have created classroom activities for grades K-12 to coincide with the Las Cruces Space Festival. The City of Las Cruces has proclaimed April 7-13 as “Space Festival Week” and these activities help public schools in the area create fun space-themed lessons. The classroom activities can be downloaded here and have […]
2019 commemorates the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the Periodic Table of chemical elements, and the Las Cruces Space Festival is celebrating with ‘Hand Made Light’, a series of site-specific art installations. ‘Hand Made Light’ is the next stage in an evolving series of art installations by Tim Fitzpatrick, as part of his ongoing […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival launches for a second year at Spaceport America on April 7th. The Festival promises to ‘make space for everyone’, providing free activities for people of all ages and interests throughout the week-long Festival. Schedules are available for the entire week of events. The Festival will launch at Spaceport America with […]
‘Our Place In Space- Las Cruces’ is a Hubble-inspired art exhibition in partnership with the Space Telescope Science Institute and the European Space Agency. Large images from the Hubble Telescope will be on display at eight locations around the City alongside pieces created by local artists. The exhibition has been carefully curated to encourage audiences […]
Are you a proud space fan? Do you have a favorite space character, real or imaginary? Do you love to dress up? Then we have the event for you! The Las Cruces Space Festival is partnering with the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership on the 2019 ‘Space Walk’. Register at the ‘Color Me Cruces’ mural (opposite […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival is looking forward to welcoming a ‘live’, staged reading of a new and original TV pilot script currently in development. The reading of ‘Way Beyond’ will be held at the Las Cruces Convention Center on Thursday, April 11th at 7pm as part of the ‘Making Contact‘ event and will be […]
On April 12th, 1961, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made history as the first human to travel into space. The Las Cruces Space Festival, along with dozens of other events around the world, will be celebrating the anniversary of human spaceflight on Friday, April 12th. New Mexico State University (NMSU) Astronomy Department in collaboration with the Astronomical […]