Moon rocks come to Merseyside

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The One Small Step exhibition at Spaceport in Merseyside will feature real fragments of the Moon's s🌺urface courtesy of NASA

Extremely rare fragments of the moon's surface, loaned by NASA, will🅺 be part of an exhibition at Spa🍌ceport in Merseyside. The new display, entitled One Small Step, opens on Thursday 9 April and celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings.

You'll know from reading SFX that we have , and this is a real coup for the British Spaceport museum. In order to keep them preserved, the fragments of lunar rock (retrieved by an Apol🍌lo mission and encapsulated in a disk of Lucite) can only be on show for three periods of the exhibition – between 9 and 24 April, 22 May and 1 June, and 28 July and 4 September.

T🐼he rest of the exhibition will show images, film and detailed models of the landmark stages that led to the historic Moon landing on 20 July 1969. A range of displays, interactive activities, meteorites and unique space memorabilia will be brought together for the first time. The exhibition will also showcase the future of space-travel and the hope for travel to other worlds.

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