Christa McAuliffe Center Open House
During FSU Police’s Touch-A-TrUck Event with K-9 Ramsey and Friends!
Saturday, July 27 From 11:00AM - 2:00PM
CHRISTA MCAULIFFE CENTER at Framingham state University
Visit the Christa McAuliffe Center during FSU Police’s Touch-A-Truck Event hosted by K-9 Ramsey! Watch screenings of the short film Earthrise, explore our life-sized Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 spacesuit replica, and tour the Challenger Learning Center!
EVENT SCHEDULE:
11:30am: Earthrise film in the Briefing Room
12:00pm: Tour of Challenger Learning Center
12:30pm: K-9 Kuzik's Retirement Party in the McCarthy Center Forum
1:00pm: Earthrise film in the Briefing Room
1:30pm: Tour of Challenger Learning Center
Throughout: Take photos with the life-sized Neil Armstrong Apollo 11 spacesuit replica, observe space with our NASA kiosk, walk through the lobby gallery, and enjoy FSU Police’s Touch-A-Truck event!
FSU Police will be holding their Touch-A-Truck event on campus from 11:00am to 2:00pm. Explore fire trucks, police interceptors, public works vehicles, and more! Sam's Ice Cream will be there to provide ice cold treats!
At 12:30pm, be sure to attend K-9 Kuzik's Retirement Party in the McCarthy Center Forum to celebrate with K-9 Ramsey and all of their K-9 friends (click for list).
Check the linked Instagram accounts for more information about the event!
ABOUT EARTHRISE:
Earthrise tells the story of the image captured of the Earth from space on Apollo 8 in 1968. Told solely by the Apollo 8 astronauts — Bill Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell — the film recounts their experiences and explores the beauty, awe, and grandeur of the Earth against the blackness of space.
The Earthrise photograph had an everlasting impact on the astronauts and humanity, offering a powerful perspective that transcended national, political, and religious boundaries. The photograph helped kickstart the environmental movement and is one of the most iconic and widely reproduced and distributed images in history. The photograph helped humanity to see our Earth as one ecosystem. Offering an opportunity to remember this shift, the photograph compels us to reflect on the Earth, more than 50 years later, as a shared home at this unprecedented time in history and to consider how we might build on the legacy of the Earthrise photograph.
PARKING AND DIRECTIONS
Parking is available in the Salem End and Maple Street Parking Lots. Once parked, follow Framingham State University’s signs and the McAuliffe Center’s yard signs to the McAuliffe Center (click here for map).