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Topic: Apollo 17 moon rock 'touchstone' locations
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music_space
Member Posts: 1179
From: Canada
Registered: Jul 2001
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posted 07-16-2018 10:39 AM
   
This article in Montréal's "La Presse" (in French) relates that a cut of Apollo 17 Sample 70215 has been lent to Centre des Sciences de Montréal. Former CSA astronaut Julie Payette has been director of this museum for a few years before being appointed Governor General of Canada.The article describe the excitement of one of the Centre's project manager Sara Arsenault, a self-described space fan, who went to Houston to pick up the sample, one of the ten in the world which are "touchable" (photo in the article). On top of a VIP visit to the Johnson Space Center, who also visited the current repository of lunar samples. This new addition to the Centre will be presented this Friday (July 20), with Mrs. Arsenault and current CSA astronaut David St-Jacques in attendance. The article adds that President Trump, on announcing its return to the moon initiative, was also given a fragment of Sample 70215. Anyone knows the exact status of that fragment? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 07-16-2018 11:15 AM
From NASA: Lunar sample 70215 is a dense, fine-grained porphyritic mare basalt that has been used to create “touchstones” for public display (see list under Processing). It was collected about 60 m from the Lunar Module and is one of the largest stones returned from the Moon. The White House only had the lunar touchstone on loan for the signing of Space Policy Directive 1 in January.The 10 lunar touchstones are as follows: - National Air and Space Museum
Washington, DC
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,84 - Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,287 - Space Center Houston
Houston, Texas
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,238 - Macmillan Space Centre
Vancouver, Canada
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,263 - Universum, Museo de las Ciencias de la UNAM
Mexico City, Mexico
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,28 - Driven to Explore Trailer
based out of Johnson Space Center
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,11 - Exploration Trailer
based out of Marshall Space Flight Center
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,265 - NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,309 - Museon
The Hague, The Netherlands
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,266 - Montreal Science Center
Quebec, Canada
Apollo 17 Lunar Sample Number 70215,395
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 12-19-2018 09:35 PM
Via Bob Jacobs, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications, photos of the lunar touchstone display at NASA Headquarters: 
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GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2476
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 12-20-2018 06:47 AM
What a cool display. I will need to figure out how to make one of those, minus the moon rock of course. I could get a meteor moon sample as a substitute. | |
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