The Oak Ridge site created 16 rock boxes for NASA, and No. 1008 was used in November 1969 by Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean during the Apollo 12 moon landing. Muir-Harmony says that because NASA ...

A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire ...

When the crew of Apollo 17 went to the moon in December 1972, one of their tasks was to bring back rock and soil samples so that scientists could better understand the moon’s geologic history.

Astronauts collected nearly 50 pounds of moon samples, and that was only the beginning. The Apollo missions, which ran from 1961 to 1975, have brought over 800 pounds of lunar rock to Earth ...

Moon dust, scaled in plastic bottles ... soon begin detailed analysis of the lunar soil collected on last July's Apollo 11 mission. Their research will provide a much clearer picture of lunar ...

With one exception, subsequent Apollo missions put ten more men on the moon. Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean collected rocks from the Ocean of Storms on Apollo 12. Alan Shepard who had been ...

The borough of Apollo first celebrated the landmark moon landing on July 21 ... live entertainment, rock climbing wall, pizza and ice cream eating contests, an Air Force virtual jet engine ...

and they picked up bits of Moon dirt and rocks to bring back to Earth to be studied. They also left behind an American flag, a patch honouring the fallen Apollo 1 crew and a plaque on one of the ...

Soil and rocks returned from the moon’s mysterious far side suggest it may be drier than the side constantly facing Earth, ...