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Posted June 26, 2019 2:24 pm. "NASA plans to send new tools and technology to the moon with Sophie Lewis is a social media producer and trending writer for CBS News, focusing on space and climate change.Be in the know. HOUSTON (AP) — Inside a locked vault at Johnson Space Center is treasure few have seen and fewer have touched.The restricted lab is home to hundreds of pounds of moon rocks collected by 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’s sort of a coincidence that we’re opening them in the year of the anniversary,” explained NASA’s Apollo sample curator Ryan Zeigler, covered head to toe in a white protective suit with matching fabric boots, gloves and hat.“But certainly the anniversary increased the awareness and the fact that we’re going back to the moon.”With the golden anniversary of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s feat fast approaching — their lunar module Eagle landed July 20, 1969, on the Sea of Tranquility — the moon is red-hot again.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. 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"To be the one to open a sample that hasn't been opened since it was collected on the moon is such an honor and heavy responsibility, we're touching history. NASA’s Lunar Sample Laboratory, a maze of gleaming metal cabinets and spotless linoleum floors, was built in the 1970s to house the rocks brought back from six moon missions. Hundreds of pounds of rocks … The lab hasn’t opened one since the 1970s.“If you goof that part up, the gas is gone. He occasionally visits the lunar sample lab and plans to help open the fresh specimens.The nine U.S. research teams selected by NASA will receive varying amounts.“Everything from the weight of a paperclip, down to basically so little mass you can barely measure it,” Zeigler said.Especially tricky will be extracting the gases that were trapped in the vacuum-sealed sample tubes. "Scientists hope that studying the unopened samples will provide insight into the origin of "The findings from these samples will provide NASA new insights into the Moon, including the history of impacts on the lunar surface, how landslides occur on the lunar surface, and how the Moon's crust has evolved over time," said Charles Shearer, science co-lead for ANGSA. The "Genesis Rock," a 4.4 billion-year-old anorthosite sample approximately 2 inches in length, brought back by Apollo 15 and used to determine the moon was formed by a giant impact, is lit inside a pressurized nitrogen-filled examination case in the lunar lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center Monday, June 17, 2019, in Houston. What’s left from this mission — about three-quarters after scientific study, public displays and goodwill gifts to all countries and U.S. states in 1969 — is kept mostly here at room temperature.Armstrong was the primary rock collector and photographer. They’re practicing with mock-up equipment and pretend lunar dirt.Compared with Apollo-era tech, today’s science instruments are much more sensitive, Zeigler noted.“We can do more with a milligram than we could do with a gram back then. In December 1972, astronauts on the Apollo 17 lunar mission returned to Earth with samples of rock and soil from the moon. About 70 percent of the original haul is in the pristine sample vault, which has two combinations and takes two people to unlock. On Tuesday, The pristine sample of rock and regolith was opened on Tuesday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston as part of NASA's Apollo Next-Generation Sample Analysis initiative (ANGSA), which is using advanced technology that was not yet available when the samples originally returned to Earth.The tests will serve as practice for studying future samples collected on "We are able to make measurements today that were just not possible during the years of the Apollo program," Dr. Sarah Noble, ANGSA program scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington, "Opening these samples now will enable new scientific discoveries about the Moon and will allow a new generation of scientists to refine their techniques to better study future samples returned by The sample opened this week was collected by Apollo 17 astronauts "I grew up on the stories of Apollo, they inspired me to pursue a career in space and now I have an opportunity to contribute to the studies that are enabling the next missions to the Moon," said Charis Krysher, a lunar sample processor who will be opening one of the samples.

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