HOUSTON, Dec. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Football fans will have the rare chance to touch a piece of a moon rock at the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz., Monday, Jan. 4 at NASA's Driven to Explore traveling exhibit. Driven to Explore offers a look at America's program to return humans to the moon and travel beyond.

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The exhibit will be located at the Glendale Youth Sports Complex from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. MST.

The centerpiece of Driven to Explore is the opportunity to touch a lunar rock sample picked up on the moon and brought to Earth by the astronauts of Apollo 17 in 1972, America's last human mission to the moon. The nearly 4-billion-year-old rock is one of only seven lunar samples in the world made available for the public to touch and feel.

Driven to Explore allows visitors to see models of the new Constellation Program's Ares rockets and Orion crew exploration vehicle NASA is developing and to learn how and why America will return to the moon.

A local Glendale company, Honeywell, has been involved in the Orion vehicle's development by delivering avionics, integrated system health management, crew interface and mission ground operations support products, systems and services.

The exhibit also details the accomplishments of the space shuttle and the International Space Station.

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