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Featured in the film 2000. on a space odyssey the u.s. mission to put a man on the moon was about to become reality. but the flight controllers on the ground were concerned that an unmanned soviet spacecraft was orbiting the moon at this time the probe was to land on the lunar surface and gather soil samples what's believed to a crashed into a mountain on july 21st. on the afternoon of july 19th apollo 11 swung into lunar orbit and the crew started making preparations for their descent to the moon surface.

From a crater that is carved into the permafrost. these soil samples are a gift to the institute. in return the researchers hope to obtain permission to exhibit some of their spectacular finds in a museum at home remains of a mammoth and the mummified remains of an extinct horse from the pleistocene epoch you. fear. it will do if they were. in the crater and which the fossilized remains were found was named the bottom gaika crater but locals call it the gateway to the underworld. it's easy to see why.

This didn't take long. the consumer advocacy group public citizen has filed a lawsuit against the president. it's filed on behalf of a environmental group in texas and three landowners who were told it would seek to build a border wall on their property this year. one landowner joins me on the phone. when were you approached? how did you learn they wanted to build the wall on your property? >> well, sometime in november, i got the first letter saying that they wanted to come into my property so they can do a survey and take some soil samples. i did not respond to that. sometime, i would say --...

Phone. when were you approached? how did you learn they wanted to build the wall on your property? >> caller: well, sometime in november, i got the first letter saying that they wanted to come into my property so they can do a survey and take some soil samples. i did not respond to that. sometime i would say -- it was thanksgiving week, they came in and after they came in september, then they came in november. and said, well, you know, we want to come in and take -- do a survey and so forth. i said, what's this for? they said, border wall infrastructure. they want to build the wall. i remember...

As soon as we collect the soil samples we took them to the commission too and dry them so that almost first goes away with and saved each soul sample into finer powder to get rid of little pieces of plastic or or grass or whatever and then wade each sample to know how much we are using the next step. the next step was to add acids to the soil to perform a reaction those cold acid digestion in. this reaction allows the have to match has to come out into solution and then we can take the solutions to use and the final stage of the process which is analysis and date collection so we take those so...