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Apollo 11 lunar sample
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Iss020-E-014193 (For Release 21 July 2009) — A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans? first landing on the moon in July 1969, is shown as it floats aboard the International Space Station. Part of Earth can be seen through the window. The 3.6 billion year-old lunar sample was flown to the station aboard Space Shuttle mission STS-119 in April 2009 in honor of the July 2009 40th anniversary of the historic first moon landing.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineApollo 11 lunar sample. NASA/JSC, 2009-06-24. Public domain. ID: iss020e014193.