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A model lunar module that was landed using a remote-controlled drone to recreate NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.
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One small step: Kids re-create the moon landing

THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH

One small step: Kids re-create the moon landing

Kids tried to land a model lunar module using a remote-controlled drone to recreate NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College. The competition is part of the Apollo Next Giant Leap Student Challenge, in which students in fifth through 12th grades build a replica of the lunar module and program a Lego robot to act as a rover; use a remote-controlled drone to land the module on a map of the moon's surface; maneuver the rover across the map of the lunar surface and complete various missions to score points; plant a flag; and safely return the lunar module to where it started using a drone.

First Published July 21, 2019, 12:25 a.m.

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A model lunar module that was landed using a remote-controlled drone to recreate NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
Members of the Otis Elementary School team out of Fremont, from left, Evan Luc, 12; Anisa Killian, 11; Logan Daley, 11; Lincolnn Ollom, 11, and Collinn Ollom, 9, use a remote-controlled drone to land the module on a map of the moon's surface to recreate NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College in Monroe, Mich.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
Model lunar rover used by the All Saints Catholic School from Rossford to recreate part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
Members of All Saints Catholic School out of Rossford, from left, Sam Buehler, 11; Jack Walsh, 12; Katharine Smith, 11; Avery Grimes, 12, and James Loomis, 11, use a remote-controlled drone to land the module on a map of the moon's surface to recreate NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
A model lunar module that was landed using a remote-controlled drone to re-create NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
Evam Leong, 16, of Waite High School, sets up a model lego rover to recreate part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
Members of the Otis Elementary School team out of Fremont, Ohio, from left, Logan Daley, 11, and Collinn Ollom, 9, set up their model Lego rover to re-create part of NASA's Apollo 11 mission Saturday at Monroe Community College.  (THE BLADE/JEREMY WADSWORTH)  Buy Image
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