This weekend’s SpaceFest activities commemorate Apollo 11 moon landing

FROM RICE NEWS STAFF REPORTS

This
weekend a four-day celebration called “SpaceFest” will commemorate the
40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing and Houston’s central
role as the home of NASA Mission Control.

The celebration
includes a number of free activities at downtown’s Discovery Green,
1500 McKinney St., where kids can launch their own rocket by attending
the Stomp Rockets interactive demonstration presented by the Rice Space
Institute and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
President John F. Kennedy’s historic 1962 speech at Rice Stadium and
several space-themed film shorts will be shown repeatedly in domed
theaters on Discovery Green.

SpaceFest is co-sponsored by Discovery Green, NASA, Houston Museum of Natural Science and Rice University.

For the SpaceFest calendar of events, go to http://www.rice.edu/spacefest/.