Columbia, Missouri Possible Solar Eclipse Tourist Destination in 2017

Brianna Stubler, a writer for the Missourian did an interview with Angela Speck, a physics professor at the University of Missouri, about the 2017 solar eclipse.

Speck wants the town to take notice of not only the eclipse but the possibility it will bring to the town with watchers and scientists coming from all over to witness 2 minutes and 37 seconds of total eclipse.

A total solar eclipse hasn't been visible from the continental US since 1979 and it's the first one to cross from West to East since 1918.

Read More about the eclipse from The Columbia Missourian