Fifty years after Apollo 17, NASA’s Johnson Space Center is taking the lead in a major milestone – the opening of lunar sample from the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17.
In 1972, Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot and geologist Harrison ‘Jack’ Schmitt and Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans left the earth to complete the mission. With Evans, ready to be the crew’s lifeline in the Command Module, Cernan and Schmitt made it to the lunar surface to conduct experiments and collect lunar samples as part of the mission.
“Scientists were great, but their instruments, ours are 50 years better it turns out. And so, we can do a lot more with a lot less nowadays and the people at the time were smart enough and patient enough to wait,” said Ryan Zeigler, Apollo Sample Curator at JSC.JSC’s Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division crafted a painstaking plan of how to handle this precious and pristinely preserved sample under vacuum.
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