NASA has unsealed one of its last untouched samples of Apollo moon rock to prepare for the return of new material by future lunar missions. Scientists at Johnson Space Center's Lunar Curation ...
"We're touching history": NASA opens untouched Apollo moon rock sample sealed for more than 40 years
In December 1972, astronauts on the Apollo 17 lunar mission returned to Earth with samples of rock and soil from the moon. On Tuesday, NASA scientists opened a sample that had been sealed and ...
Collected during Apollo 17, a 3.5 billion year old basalt rock known as "The Children of the World" or "The Goodwill Sample" is displayed in the lunar lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center Monday, June ...
NASA scientists opened an untouched rock and soil sample from the Moon returned to Earth on Apollo 17, marking the first time in more than 40 years a pristine sample of rock and regolith from the ...
The Apollo 17 sample that will be analyzed was collected in an environmentally unique region of the moon using a device called a drive tube. The tube, which contains top and bottom portions, was ...
(CNN) — Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s one of the last unopened samples from ...
Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Back in ...
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