Touch the Moon This Week at NASA Exhibit in Columbus

HOUSTON, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Visitors will have the rare chance
to touch a piece of a moon rock this week in a new NASA exhibit at the Center
of Science and Industry.

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Driven to Explore is a free exhibit that offers a look at America's program to
return humans to the moon and travel beyond. The exhibit will be open to the
public 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, to Friday, Oct. 24; 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Saturday, Oct. 25; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26.

The centerpiece of Driven to Explore is the opportunity to touch a lunar rock
sample 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, 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:

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SOURCE NASA

Jenny Knotts of NASA's Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-792-7671,
norma.j.knotts@nasa.gov