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Scientists Recover Gases From Moon Rock Time Capsule

Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a Moon rock container that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA’s Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) initiative. Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected the sample from ...

Troy Oakes

A Moon rock in a sealed container.