NASA to open sealed moon rock samples from Apollo missions for the first time in decades!
India TodayInside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched. 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon landing What better way to mark this summer's 50th anniversary of humanity's first footsteps on the moon than by sharing a bit of the lunar loot. It was supposed to be left on the Moon, but was discovered in a Beta cloth bag in a closet at Armstrong's home a few years ago: https://t.co/C7EQY3dEyc #Apollo50 pic.twitter.com/xgpMc8mDwk National Air and Space Museum June 21, 2019 Back to the moon in 2024 After decades of flip-flopping between the moon and Mars as the next big astronaut destination, NASA aims to put astronauts on the lunar surface again by 2024 at the White House's direction. "Fifty years later, we're still learning new things.incredible," said the lab's Charis Krysher, holding a clear acrylic marble embedded with chips of Apollo 11 moon rock in her gloved hand. By studying the Apollo moon rocks, Zeigler said, scientists have determined the ages of the surfaces of Mars and Mercury and established that Jupiter and the solar system's other big outer planets likely formed closer to the sun and later migrated outward.
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