NASA Wants Its Long-Lost Moon Dust Back

[burntheships]

NASA Wants Its Long-Lost Moon Tust Back


Vials of Apollo 11 moon dust have been found in storage at The Lawrence Livermore Labs....after 40 years; Now NASA wants the samples returned...

More than 40 years after it was brought back to Earth and accidentally put into storage, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory says it has re-discovered Moon dust samples collected by the Apollo 11 crew. But now NASA wants the samples returned, thank you very much.

When the Apollo 11 crew returned from its historic flight in 1969, the Moon rocks and soil collected made their way to no less than 150 labs worldwide. One of these was the Space Sciences Laboratory in Latimer Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. But after tests on the dust were completed, the samples were supposed to have been sent back to NASA.


Instead, they were put in storage where they collected Earth dust for the past 40 years. But last month, Berkeley Lab archivist Karen Nelson found the Moon dust — about 20 vials with handwritten labels and dated "24 July 1970"— while working in the lab's warehouse. "They were vacuum sealed in a glass jar," said Nelson, "We don't know how or when they ended up in storage."
http://io9.com/nasa-wants-its-long-lost-moon-dust-back-510113408

I wonder how many vials
are missing, the article says "about" 20 vials....

hehe I imagine someone could not resisit taking one for a hike.

[Somamech]

Nice find BTS

More here from the DOE:

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/science-shorts/2013/05/08/melvin-calvin-moon-dust/

This snipped out of context but still quite funny all the same if you read the full article

Nelson contacted the Space Sciences Laboratory. "They were surprised we had the samples," she said. She then contacted NASA, who asked that the samples be sent back but allowed her to first open the jar to remove the vials.

AT what point in history did NASA run a Space Program?  Apart from that program which we all know about for it's overt operation's to conceal the covert operations