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For Immediate Release

June 18, 2009

Media Contact: Julie Cooper or Deborah M. Martin
jcooper72@mail.accd.edu or dmartin82@mail.accd.edu
(210) 486-0882 or (210) 486-0881


Apollo 16 Astronaut Charles Duke on Campus

image of Apollow Astronaut Charles Duke being greeted by Bob Kelley

On June 16,    Scobee Planetarium Educational Specialist Bob Kelley, greeted Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke.    Duke was on the SAC campus  for an interview with KENS-TV’s "Great Day SA" to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.    KENS reporter Eileen Teves used  Scobee and the “First Men on the Moon” painting by NASA artist Robert T. McCall at Chance Academic Center as the backdrop for the interviews, which will air July 13 and 20. Duke, the 10th man to walk on the moon,  was also part of the support crew and capsule communicator  for Apollo 11.  

 
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