Clark Planetarium is inviting the public to celebrate Apollo 17 Saturday
Dec 8, 2022, 2:12 PM | Updated: 2:15 pm
Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City. (KSL TV)
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SALT LAKE CITY — Clark Planetarium is celebrating the 50-year anniversary of Apollo 17 on Dec. 10.
Apollo 17 was the last mission which a human set foot on the moon and retrieved rock samples, and left a mark on the moon with a plaque.
Gene Cernan, the last astronaut on the moon, said “the entire world was on board that spacecraft with us.”
To commemorate the achievements in space exploration, Clark Planetarium is inviting the public to freely explore the activities in-building from 12 to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Join us for free and fun activities this Sat., Dec. 10, between noon and 4 p.m. to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 17 mission to the moon! Paint the moon, engineer and fly a paper rocket, make constellation art, discover meteorites, learn about robots and more! pic.twitter.com/XA0u1hmSFD
— clarkplanet (@ClarkPlanet) December 6, 2022
Visitors can touch a piece of the moon that will be on display, or paint a moon for themselves. Other activities include paper rockets, robotics, constellation art, and films in the theaters there.
Later, the public is also invited to see the moon through telescopes from 8 to 10 p.m., as long as the weather allows.
