Collected during Apollo 17, a 3.5 billion year old basalt rock known as "The Children of the World" or "The Goodwill Sample" is displayed in the lunar lab at the NASA Johnson Space Center Monday, June ...

NASA has unsealed one of its last untouched samples of Apollo moon rock to prepare for the return of new material by future lunar missions. Scientists at Johnson Space Center's Lunar Curation ...

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 and ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s one of the last unopened samples from ...

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 ...

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A view from the Apollo 11 lunar module shows mission commander Neil Armstrong collecting a sample of lunar dust and rocks. At his feet is the handle for the sample collection tool. (NASA Photo / Andy ...

Despite the best efforts of NASA, samples of moondust collected by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission could fetch more than $1 million next month at Bonhams’ space history sale in ...

A small white bag that was once used by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong to hold the first-ever lunar samples to be collected from the surface of the moon is now at the center of not one, but two ...

Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. It’s one of the last unopened samples from the ...