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Apollo 11 sample return container

author: Nasa/Novapix

reference: e-apo11-40036

Image Size 300 DPI: 29 * 29 cm

The first Apollo 11 sample return container, with lunar surface material inside, is unloaded at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, Building 37, Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC). The rock box had arrived only minutes earlier at Ellington Air Force Base by air from the Pacific recovery area. The lunar samples were collected by astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. during their lunar surface extravehicular activity.

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1969 - APOLLO - APOLLO 11 - LUNAR ROCK - MAN - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - SAMPLE -