In honor of the LeFlore County Museum at Hotel Lowrey’s newest exhibit – Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, students from Poteau’s Upper Elementary drew posters for the exhibit.
Ted and Sharon Knight provided prize money for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. Pictured are the Honorable Mention winners (L to R) museum Board Member Sharon Knight, Trek Snyder, Brynlee Frazier and Khia Brookfield. Gracyn Lum received 3rd place and Dafnee Ruiz received 2nd place and museum board Member Judy Ervin. 1st Place winner was Camila Moralis – not pictured.
On July 24, 1969, Apollo 11 met President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 challenge of “landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” The poster exhibition Destination Moon now on exhibit at the LeFlore County Museum at Hotel Lowrey, explores what led the United States to accept this challenge and how the resulting 953,054-mile voyage to the Moon and back was accomplished just eight years after the program was authorized. Destination Moon examines the mission and recognizes the sacrifices and devotion of more than 400,000 people employed in NASA programs who worked through the trials, tragedies and triumphs of the 20 missions from 1961 to 1969 before Apollo 11.
The Destination Moon exhibit is based on a traveling exhibition of the same name, developed by the National Air and Space Museum and the Smithsonian Institution Exhibition Service.
The LeFlore County Museum at Hotel Lowrey is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 to 3. For schools and organizations, the staff will be happy to work with you on scheduling a tour outside of our regular business hours if needed. Call the director, Bonnie Prigmore at 918-647-9330 for more information.
The exhibit will be on display through March 2020.
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