Visitors Can Touch the Moon This Weekend at NASA Exhibit in Midlothian; Media
Invited to Preview on Friday, June 20
HOUSTON, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Visitors will have the rare chance
to touch a piece of a moon rock this weekend in a new NASA exhibit at the DFW
Summer Balloon Classic at the Mid-Way Regional Airport in Midlothian.
A special preview of the exhibit is available for media from 8 a.m. to 9:30
a.m. Friday, June 20. The free exhibit, which offers a look at America's
program to return humans to the moon and travel beyond, will be open to the
public 4 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday; 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 21; and 6
a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sunday, June 22.
The centerpiece of the exhibit 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 six lunar samples in the world made available for the
public to touch and feel.
As NASA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, the new exhibit 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. The display in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be the exhibit's first
stop as it begins a journey around the country.
For more information about NASA visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/home
SOURCE NASA
Jenny Knotts of NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-792-7671,
norma.j.knotts@nasa.gov
