The Other Unopened Apollo Sample

Houston We Have a Podcast

Katie Konans

Science

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Juliane Gross and Cindy Evans describe opening a vacuum-sealed lunar sample that has been preserved for nearly 50 years. HWHAP Episode 246.

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0:00.0	Houston, we have a podcast.
0:02.1	Welcome to the official podcast
0:03.5	of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 246,
0:06.4	the other unopened Apollo sample.
0:09.1	I'm Gary Jordan, I'll be your host today.
0:11.0	On this podcast, we bring in the expert scientists,
0:12.9	engineers, astronauts, all to let you know
0:14.5	what's going on in the world with human spaceflight.
0:17.0	The saying goes that good things come to those who wait.
0:20.2	50 years ago, Apollo astronauts
0:22.2	knew when they collected lunar samples
0:24.4	on the surface of the moon that some of them
0:26.3	would need to be saved as technology evolved.
0:29.5	Fast forward to 2022 in its most pristine condition.
0:34.0	Scientists have opened one of the last
0:36.3	sealed Apollo lunar samples.
0:38.6	This sample was collected specifically
0:40.8	during the Apollo 17 mission.
0:43.6	On episode 137, we actually talked about one
0:46.7	of the Apollo lunar samples that was opened in 2019.
0:50.5	On that episode, our guest, Sheree's Chrysher
0:53.2	and Andrea Mosy gave us a great insight
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