Las Cruces Space Festival 2019 is excited to include an excerpt from the play ‘Yuri’ by Larissa Lury. Based on the first man to orbit the Earth, Yuri Gagarin, the play is a part fact, mostly imagined, tale of the first human orbit. Yuri, the first human launched into space, orbits the earth. We track his […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival is an annual celebration of space-related activity and interest in southern New Mexico and beyond. Our mission is ‘Making Space for Everyone’. The festival is free to participate in, and open to all, with the cost of activities, presentations, displays, and exhibits all covered by sponsors. We work with many […]
Following the encouraging success of the inaugural Las Cruces Space Festival in April 2018, it is time to look to the future and launch the start of the bigger and bolder 2019 celebration. Las Cruces is synonymous with Space; from the early rocket research at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), which started in the mid […]
The first Las Cruces Space Festival (LCSF) has started! We are celebrating space-related activity and interest in the Las Cruces region and beyond. Everyone is invited to join this free, inaugural celebration of all things space! We’re making space for everyone! Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved in making the ‘Las Cruces Space Festival’ […]
It’s time to have fun and enjoy the accomplishments and importance of space in Las Cruces and the surrounding community. To celebrate all things space, volunteers have come together to create New Mexico’s first ever Space Festival. It will take place over three days and nights, April 12th to 14th, across three locations. The theme is […]