With support from UCF alumni, faculty and students, NASA aims to send humans back to blaze a path from the moon into deep space exploration for the future of humankind. UCF’s Exolith Lab is home to the world’s largest simulated lunar surface with its Regolith Bin. The state-of-the art research and testing facility allows space companies, scientists, faculty and students to test how moon dust interacts with hardware that powers space missions. The Regolith Bin is filled with 120 tons of lunar highland simulant soil, replicating the moon’s south pole – which is where NASA’s Artemis program aims to develop a sustainable presence. The mission patch displays a pattern used by the Artemis program circling Earth while also depicting the number eight for Mission VIII. The red in the path references the wing in NASA’s logo.