Moonshot Museum reaches $1.7 million in funding, nears construction start date

The Moonshot Museum, which will be Pennsylvania's first space museum when it opens later this year at Astrobotic Technologies Inc.'s North Side headquarters, announced it reached $1.7 million in fundraising as part of its $2.7 million capital campaign. A $500,000 award from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation represented the largest chunk of the most recent fundraising efforts. It'll be used to build out the museum's media production and exhibition fabrications. The Allegheny Foundation and the Howmet…