After sitting untouched in storage for nearly 50 years, lunar samples collected during the Apollo 15, 16 and 17 missions will be studied for the first time, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced
The announcement came during Bridenstine's discussion of the agency's Moon to Mars initiative and the 2020 budget.
's Science Mission Directorate, in a statement."This exploration will bring with it new and unique samples into the best labs right here on Earth."The three samples from the final three Apollo missions have never been exposed to our atmosphere on Earth. Six of the nine teams will study the Apollo 17 sample, delivered to Earth in a vacuum-sealed drive tube that astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Gene Cernan hammered into the lunar surface to collect a material core in 1972.
's Johnson Space Center since December 1972. Read MoreThe other teams will study samples kept frozen or stored in helium from the final moon missions. The Apollo missions traveled to the moon's equatorial region, so all of the samples are from a similar area, but previous studies using data from orbit have revealed that the moon has complex geology, including rocks and minerals not determined from the Apollo samples. The pristine samples were kept in storage for a reason.
Ames Research Center, the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute,
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