Splashdown Grand Turk

Cutting a ribbon to open the new "Splashdown Grand Turk" educational exhibit at the Grand Turk Cruise Terminal are, from left, Giora Israel, senior vice president Port and Destination Development for Carnival Corp. & plc; Gordon Wetherell, Turks & Caicos Island governor; Winston Scott, former NASA space shuttle astronaut; Janet Petro, deputy director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, Lillian Misick chair of the Consultative Forum of the Turks and Caicos. Developed by Carnival Corp. & plc in conjunction with NASA, the exhibit commemorates the 1962 splashdown landing off Grand Turk of Friendship 7, a Mercury space capsule piloted by John Glenn. Photo by Andy Newman/Carnival Corp. & plc