At the University of Central Florida’s Exolith Lab, Dr. Phil Metzger and other university researchers have developed a realistic simulant of moon soil using minerals sourced from across North America.

The bold question-askers at What If imagine how a 1960s Soviet moon colony might have reshaped the future of space travel.

Just like that, she jets off on a space adventure: wandering an underground moon colony, battling alien monsters and invaders from Venus, and meeting a visitor from the future who comes bearing a ...