Washington D.C.- U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is helping NASA bring the final frontier to the Wyoming State Fair. Children and parents will be able to journey to the moon and Mars and back again all while staying in Douglas.

                NASA’s Vision for Space Exploration Trailer is a 53 foot long traveling exhibit that teaches people about the future of space flight exploration. The exhibit has never been to Wyoming. At the invitation of Enzi the trailer will be at the Wyoming State Fair August 13-18 from noon until 8 p.m. in Douglas. Enzi hopes the trailer will create interest in space exploration.

                "I’ve always said ‘those who can find a way to make a living in Wyoming, live in Wyoming’. The new technologies that will be needed for space exploration can be developed and manufactured right here at home. This exhibit can help spark the imagination and inspire the next great innovation," said Enzi, who plans to visit the exhibit on August 18.

                The trailer is one of the only places on Earth that a visitor can touch a piece of the moon. The other two can be found at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. and the Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas. As home to one of the moon rocks brought back from the Apollo 17 mission, fair goers can touch a piece of history from the last lunar landing as they learn about new NASA advancements and preparations to return to the moon by 2018.

                 The trailer is split into two "phases". The first phase allows visitors to interactively learn about craters of the moon, water on Mars, the history of past lunar landings and the future Mars missions planned for 2030.

                The second phase takes visitors to a different world as they walk across a light-sensitive interactive video floor that displays either the red surface of Mars or the grey surface of the moon. As visitors move their feet, the rocks will shuffle as though their feet are actually on the extraterrestrial surface.