SHERIDAN — Denver. The final frontier.

So it was for the Cassiday family on one six-hour and 425-mile trip this fall. With a captive audience in the car, mom Liz sought ways to keep her daughters entertained and their minds stimulated. So they started planning out another, much longer trip: a 238,900 mile trip to the moon’s South Pole.

How many people would you bring with you on a one-week expedition? What would their roles be? What high-tech gadgets would you bring with you on your journey?

Fourth-grader Addison admitted she never thought much about the moon before that road trip. She had learned about NASA in school but only briefly. But the road-trip questions sparked her imagination and an interest she didn’t even know she had. And a visit to the NASA website further stoked her passion as she read countless articles about the first trip to the moon and robots and decades of research.

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