Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collected during Apollo 17, a 3.5 billion year old basalt rock known as "The Children of the World" or "The Goodwill Sample" is ...

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A satisfying, audible "pop" marked a successful piercing of the sealed Apollo 17 sample container using the ESA designed and built piercing tool. The tool forms part of a gas sampling system with a ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Lunar rock collected by Apollo 17 is revealing more about the Light Mantle, a ...

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 the ...

Despite the best efforts of NASA, samples of moondust collected by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission could fetch more than $1 million next month at Bonhams’ space history sale in ...

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 the ...

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