Touch the Moon at Eisenhower Library, Kansas State U.
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April 14, 2009
HOUSTON, TX -- Visitors will have the rare chance to touch a piece of a moon rock this week when the new NASA Driven to Explore traveling exhibit stops at the Eisenhower Presidential Library in Abilene and Kansas State University at Salina.
Driven to Explore offers a look at America's program to return humans to the moon and travel beyond. The exhibit will be open 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Abilene and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 18, in Salina.
The centerpiece of Driven to Explore is the opportunity to touch a lunar rock sample picked up on the moon and brought to Earth by the astronauts of Apollo 17 in 1972, America's last human mission to the moon. The almost 4 billion-year-old rock is one of only seven lunar samples in the world made available for the public to touch and feel.
As NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first human lunar landing mission, Driven to Explore allows visitors to see models of the new rockets and spacecraft NASA is developing and to learn how and why America will return to the moon. The exhibit also details the accomplishments of the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
For more information about NASA, visit:
www.nasa.gov/home
For information about the Apollo 40th anniversary, visit:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th
Driven to Explore offers a look at America's program to return humans to the moon and travel beyond. The exhibit will be open 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Thursday, April 16, in Abilene and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 18, in Salina.
The centerpiece of Driven to Explore is the opportunity to touch a lunar rock sample picked up on the moon and brought to Earth by the astronauts of Apollo 17 in 1972, America's last human mission to the moon. The almost 4 billion-year-old rock is one of only seven lunar samples in the world made available for the public to touch and feel.
As NASA celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first human lunar landing mission, Driven to Explore allows visitors to see models of the new rockets and spacecraft NASA is developing and to learn how and why America will return to the moon. The exhibit also details the accomplishments of the space shuttle and the International Space Station.
For more information about NASA, visit:
www.nasa.gov/home
For information about the Apollo 40th anniversary, visit:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th
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