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Apollo 11: lunar rock

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo11-40033

Image Size 300 DPI: 32 * 21 cm

A close-up view of the lunar rocks contained in the first Apollo 11 sample return container. The rock box was opened for the first time in the Vacuum Laboratory of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Building 37, at 3:55 p.m. (CDT), Saturday, July 26, 1969. The gloved hand gives an indication of size. This box also contained the Solar Wind Composition experiment (not shown) and two core tubes for subsurface samples (not shown). These lunar samples were collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during their lunar surface extravehicular activity on July 20, 1969. 26 july 1969.

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1969 - APOLLO - APOLLO 11 - BLACK AND WHITE - LUNAR ROCK - SAMPLE -