David Saint-Jacques, next Canadian to go to space, helps open moon rock exhibit
MONTREAL — Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques, who blasts off for an extended stay on the International Space Station in December, helped launch a moon rock exhibition Friday at the Montreal Science Centre.
Visitors will be able to touch the lunar sample, which is 3.8-billion years old, weighs 24 grams and is only as big as an eraser.
It wasn’t a coincidence that the exhibition was officially unveiled on the 49th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing by American Apollo 11 astronauts on July 20, 1969.
Saint-Jacques touched the science centre’s latest attention-getter, which was collected during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.