NASA to open untouched moon samples for 1st time since Apollo missions

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NASA has selected nine teams to study untouched moon samples brought back to Earth by the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions, which have been locked away in storage for the past 50 years.

The teams have been handed a combined budget of $8 million to study the lunar samples in the hopes of deepening NASA’s understanding of the Moon. 

“By studying these precious lunar samples for the first time, a new generation of scientists will help advance our understanding of our lunar neighbor and prepare for the next era of exploration of the Moon and beyond,”explainedThomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.

Military organizations like the US Naval Research Laboratory and academic institutions like the University of Arizona, New Mexico and California Berkeley have been selected to carry out the testing alongside several in-house operations like NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center.

Work won’t begin right away, however, as the teams have to discuss how best to open the samples without contaminating them first.

Six of the nine teams will study an Apollo 17 sample core of roughly 1.8lbs of lunar rock layers delivered to Earth by Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan in 1972.

The remaining teams will study samples left over from the Apollo 15 and 16 missions that have been frozen or stored in helium since they arrived on Earth.

“Returned samples are an investment in the future. These samples were deliberately saved so we can take advantage of today’s more advanced and sophisticated technology to answer questions we didn’t know we needed to ask,” Lori Glaze, acting director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, said in a statement.

The teams will study exactly how water is stored in the highly irradiated rock on the lunar surface in an experiment that was begun 50 years ago. They will also explore topics such as space weathering, the geologic history of the Apollo 17 site, and past volcanic activity on the Moon.

Teams will also study the landing site of the Apollo 11 mission to investigate its unique geological characteristics and its potential as a ‘cold trap’ where water may have been able to freeze.

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4 thoughts on “NASA to open untouched moon samples for 1st time since Apollo missions”

  1. I called total bulkshit by “never a straight answer.”
    First he 800 pounds of samples brought back by all Apollo missions contain evidence is of a major solar Nova. This was written in a sanitize version by the “can’t install appliances’ company by Chan Thomas. The so-called glass that covers portions of the Moon have been examine to contain fission tracks.
    This glass in by no means was made by volcanic activity positively. The same glass which appeared as nodules on earth also had the same non-volcanic fission tracks. See Doug Vogt. Read and learn about this because it’s the biggest lie perpetrated by our Uncle. I million to study is pisswater compared to the cataclysm upon us now…see you on the other side….some go to heaven for the climate, others go to help for the company.

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  3. If they have rocks from the moon your telling me they not open them up and run test on them this is truly unbelievable

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  4. I hope they won’t be too surprised to find out they are really just rocks from this planet and that the whole moon landing thing has always been a fraud.

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