A highly organized and very beautiful taxonomy of every moon rock astronauts brought back to Earth

Get the Full StoryThe 12 humans who walked on the Moon collected, cataloged, and returned 842 pounds of lunar rock and soil that now exists in NASA s Lunar Sample Catalog.

American astronauts plan to head back to the Moon in the next few years, closing a 50-year gap in human lunar exploration. The three-and-a-half-year period from 1969 to 1972 when American astronauts walked on the Moon yielded a huge amount of science that continues to be studied today, yielding new insights. The 12 astronauts who explored the surface of the Moon collected and returned a whopping 842 pounds of lunar rocks and soil, which are carefully controlled by NASA and extremely valuable so valuable that a group of NASA interns stole 20 million worth of the lunar samples in a 600-pound safe in 2002, but were later busted by the FBI.Read Full Story

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