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LUNAR SAMPLES - APOLLO XI
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S69-45002 (26 July 1969) --- 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).
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineLUNAR SAMPLES - APOLLO XI. NASA/JSC, 1969-07-27. Public domain. ID: S69-45002.
