Neil Armstrong famously was the first astronaut to walk on the moon. That was in 1969, but now you can run through galaxies and millions of light-years with Science ATL’s new “Race Through Space” app. “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes spoke with Meisa Salaita, the co-executive director of Science ATL, about this new interactive app.
The 2014 Atlanta Science Festival was the jumping off point for Science ATL’s nonprofit organization.

“The festival was a smashing success, and it turns out that people really want to learn about science and they’re excited to come to festival events like ‘Science Story Times’ and ‘Hiking Stone Mountain with a Geologist,’” Salaita said. “We decided a few years later that we needed to do more than just the annual festival, and now we do things throughout the year.”
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