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 ...

(CBS NEWS)- 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 ...

Nearly 50 years ago, between 1971 and 1972, some lunar materials were brought back from the Moon to Earth by Apollo astronauts. Nine “special samples” were collected during the Apollo 15, 16, and 17 ...

NASA has opened a previously sealed rock sample brought back from the Moon in 1972, marking the first time it will be analyzed. The space agency said it opened rock sample 73002 on Nov. 5, in ...

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 ...

More than 50 years after the last manned moon mission, the Apollo program is still making groundbreaking discoveries. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Lunar rock ...

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Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston ...