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Over the past few years, a few unopened Apollo-era lunar samples collected during Apollo 17 have been opened by a...
When Apollo astronauts began bringing samples from the Moon to Earth over 50 years ago, NASA chose to keep some...
Where are the Moon rocks? When they’re not being studied by institutions or enjoyed by museumgoers, NASA has a...
“How does NASA collect surface samples from the Moon? The answer may surprise you! Explore the challenges of...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
A technology demonstration flying aboard the next delivery for NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services)...
Caye Johnson, a former biologist from NASA's Ames Research Center, narrates footage from 1969 of researchers...
Ivanka Trump, advisor to President Donald Trump, touches a sample from the moon that former astronaut Jack Schmitt,...
The benefits of space station research and development, refining the architecture for the Mars Sample Return...
Naming a mountain on the Moon, watching and helping from space, and a sample wide shot from Mars … a few of the...
Luna 16 was the first robotic mission to land on the Moon on basaltic plains of Mare Fecunditatis and return a...
This footage from 1969 shows researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center examining samples of Moon rocks and soil...
The Apollo 11 mission, the first manned lunar mission, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida via the...
Vice President Mike Pence, center, views Sample 15014, which was collected during Apollo 15 with NASA's Apollo...
NASA's Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility is home to the most cherished -- and scientifically important -- relics of...
This image depicting the porosity of the lunar highland crust was derived using bulk density data from NASA GRAIL...
S69-60424 (29 Nov. 1969) --- Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds...
jsc2018e076655 (Aug. 23, 2018) --- Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug....
jsc2018e076652 (Aug. 23, 2018) --- Vice President Mike Pence visited NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Aug....
A technology demonstration instrument aboard Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 has operated on the Moon as...
jsc2018e003239_alt (Jan. 31, 2018) --- Composite image of an Apollo lunar sample in front of the lunar eclipse...
S72-38465 (19 May 1972) --- In an isolated area of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory,...