Approximately 550 runners and walkers took part in the 2025 edition of the Run to the Moon. Participants had the option to run a 10K, 5K or take part in a one-mile fun run.
Wapakoneta is gearing up for its summer time tradition - the Summer Moon Festival is coming up!
Michael J. Foreman (Captain, U.S. Navy, Ret.), who served as a NASA Astronaut from 1998 to 2015, is returning to Wapakoneta later this month as the special guest of the Run To The Moon and Summer Moon Festival on Saturday, July 19.
Hundreds of runners and walkers lace up their shoes to Run to the Moon in Wapakoneta Saturday morning.
Runners and walkers laced up their shoes to participate in the 2022 Run to the Moon. The rain didn't stop around 700 runners from seven differ…
Festivities continued in Wapakoneta to celebrate Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 mission. The 2021 Run to the Moon 5K was held in Wapakoneta at the Armstrong Air and Space museum.
The annual run was going to be Saturday morning with safety protocols in place. But organizers have decided to make it an all virtual running event after they received a letter under the direction of the State Health Department that the race cannot happen in person, because of the rise of cases statewide.