Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Celebrates July 2 Grand Opening
Of Great Balls of Fire Exhibit
with Astronaut Tom Jones
Great Balls of Fire, a new new interactive exhibit, will be opening at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on July 2, 2014.
At the Great Balls of Fire exhibit, guests will discover the risks that asteroids, comets, and meteorites present to our planet. The exhibit explores how we keep track of near-Earth objects while examining the effects of possible impacts.
To help celebrate the Grand Opening Dr. Tom Jones, a four-time space shuttle astronaut, will be the guest of honor. As a senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Jones will focus on the future direction of human space exploration, uses of asteroid and space resources and defending Earth from asteroid impacts.
Within the Great Balls of Fire exhibit is Asteroid Encounter, where guests can climb aboard a “spaceship” and blast off to the asteroid belt and Jupiter while compiling data about asteroids and comets. Guests also can explore what would happen if one of these celestial bodies were to hit their hometown, determine Science Fact or Science Fiction of Hollywood movie clips and much more.
Here is the Great Balls of Fire Exhibit Grand Opening Schedule:
**All times are subject to change**
2 p.m. Grand Opening of Great Balls of Fire: Therrin Protze, chief operating officer, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex Dr. Tom Jones, four-time space shuttle astronaut and asteroid expert
3 p.m. Asteroid presentation by Dr. Tom Jones
4 p.m. Autograph signing, Dr. Tom Jones, The Space Shop
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