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music_space
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posted 07-16-2018 10:39 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for music_space   Click Here to Email music_space     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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
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posted 07-16-2018 11:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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

Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-19-2018 09:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Via Bob Jacobs, NASA's Deputy Associate Administrator for Communications, photos of the lunar touchstone display at NASA Headquarters:

GACspaceguy
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posted 12-20-2018 06:47 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GACspaceguy   Click Here to Email GACspaceguy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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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