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LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - It's a rare and special piece of rock, matter of fact there are only a few samples on display on the planet and now a piece of the moon has found a home here in Lufkin.

LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) - It’s rare that East Texas gets visitors from all over the world. However, the founder of the Everest Science Center in Nepal made a special visit to the Naranjo Museum of Natural History in Lufkin.

Dr. Neal Naranjo, the Naranjo Museum of Natural History, and Professor Peter Andrew, Stephen F. Austin School of Art, co-presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) conference in Savannah, Georgia, April 3 thru 6.

The Naranjo Museum of Natural History is now featuring a moon rock display of an Apollo 15 lunar sample collected by Astronaut James Irwin at Station 8, adjacent to the lunar module landing.

The Naranjo Museum of Natural History is the lastest addition to Lufkin's museum and education community. Dr. Neal and Mary Ann Naranjo opened the museum to give exploring minds the opportunity to see history first hand.

In September the Naranjo Museum of Natural History held its grand opening, making The Lufkin Daily News top 10 stories of 2012.

An out of this world exhibit is coming to East Texas for the first time. A moon rock and space helmet will be on display at the Naranjo Museum beginning Feb. 1st.

Neal Naranjo and his team put the finishing touches on Bubba Rex the only life-size, T-Rex replica in East Texas. The bones were cast from a real T-Rex fossil, "Stan," which was found in the Spring of 1987 in the Hell Creek formation near Buffalo S.D.