Ten finalists from the Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) Poster Contest have been chosen by the crew from the Challenger Learning Center of Las Cruces. Five finalists have been chosen from grades kindergarten-second and five from third grade-fifth. The winners will be chosen by the Las Cruces Space Festival Planning Committee and announced on March […]
The full schedule for the 2019 Las Cruces Space Festival is here! We are excited to launch 2019 events at Spaceport America on Sunday, April 7th. Up to 50 planes will be allowed to fly in for the ‘Open House’ at the world’s first purpose-built commercial spaceport. Free entertainment for the whole family will include; meet […]
We are delighted to welcome Artist Tim Fitzpatrick and his exhibit, Hand Made Light, to the Las Cruces Space Festival. Tim’s installations exploring emission spectra of the elements will be displayed in multiple locations around Las Cruces. Hand Made Light is the next stage in an evolving series of art installations by Tim Fitzpatrick and […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival is providing a platform to showcase local space-related organizations in New Mexico and the talented folk that work for them. Throughout the week-long festival to be held April 7th-13th, there will be talks by New Mexico State University (NMSU) Academics, Researchers from New Mexico Observatories and NMSU Graduates now working […]
The Las Cruces Space Festival is excited to welcome back guest speaker Alires Almon. Alires grew up in Las Cruces, graduating from Mayfield High and gaining her Master’s Degree in Experimental Psychology at New Mexico State University. She previously joined the 2018 Las Cruces Space Festival to discuss her role as Orchestrator of Engagement at […]
Otto Rigan, the artist behind the Genesis sculpture at the entrance of Spaceport America, will be attending the ‘Open House‘ launching the Las Cruces Space Festival on April 7. In 2015, the 11,000 pound steel sculpture “Genesis” was installed at the roundabout by the entrance to Spaceport America. Inlaid in the metal arc are glass […]
What do Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Matthew McConoughey have in common with the Las Cruces Space Festival? They all star in space movies that we will be featuring, for free, at the Rio Grande Theatre April 9-13. The Las Cruces Space Festival 2019 is excited to announce that we will be showing […]
Award-winning Author Loretta Hall, will be returning to the Las Cruces Space Festival in 2019. Loretta has written eight non-fiction novels that explore themes around space exploration, ecological architecture, and multiculturalism. Loretta Hall is also a certified Space Ambassador for the National Space Society. This allows her a platform to share her passion and excitement […]
Las Cruces Public Schools (LCPS) is putting the ‘A’ in ‘STEAM’ (Science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics). A contest is being run for all elementary- age students in Las Cruces to design a poster that may be used to promote the 2019 Las Cruces Space Festival. The contest rules state that the poster must be […]
Las Cruces Space Festival is celebrating the anniversary of the first human to venture into space on April 12, 1961, and the inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle in 1981. Yuri’s Night, named after Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, is a global celebration of human space travel. Yuri’s Night is celebrated by tens of thousands around […]