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Touch the Moon This Week at ASTC Conference in Philadelphia

15.10.2008 20:05 Political Press Releases

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To: SCIENCE EDITORS

Contact: Louis Parker of NASA, Johnson Space Center, Houston, +1-281-483-8622, louis.a.parker@nasa.gov

HOUSTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Visitors will have the rare chance to touch a piece of a moon rock this week in the new NASA Driven to Explore traveling exhibit at the Association of Science-Technology Centers annual conference at the Philadelphia Convention Center.

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Driven to Explore offers a look at America's program to return humans to the moon and travel beyond. The exhibit hall will be open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, and 10:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, and Sunday, Oct. 19.

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.

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