Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis Program News Today

Michelle Thompson is a geologist. But while “geo” means earth, she studies things that are decidedly unearthly, or at least extraterrestrial: the moon and asteroids.

The seeds grew in lunar soil collected during Apollo 11, 12 and 17 missions decades ago.

Researchers have grown plants in the soil of the Moon, according to a recent report from NASA. The ...

NASA scientists grow plants in lunar soil

Researchers were over the moon about the earth-shattering discovery that seeds can grow in moon soil in a first-of-its-kind test.

Researchers were over the moon about the earth-shattering discovery that seeds can grow in moon soil in a first-of-its-kind test.

FIfty-year-old lunar samples are finally being analyzed at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center ahead of future Artemis missions.

Scientists have begun studying the last sample that came from the Moon, 50 years ago, in 1972. The sample was brought to Earth by Apollo-17 astronauts.

When the Apollo 15 and 17 missions returned to Earth with pieces of the Moon in 1971 and 1972, some of the samples were deliberately set aside for the future.

Sample 73001 has finally been opened, after collection in 1972 by the NASA astronauts during the Apollo 17 mission to the moon.