Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility Building 31 (NASA)

Andrea Mosie, Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility manager is showing me one of the Lunar rock samples which is bagged and housed in a containment cabinet to prevent contamination. You’ll notice we are wearing "bunny suits" to keep the area pristine.

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Dr. Dean Muirhead and I are listening to Andrea Mosie at one of the containment cabinets.

I am seen taking a photograph of one of the Lunar samples in a containment cabinet to prevent contamination.

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Lunar sample bagged and inside a containment cabinet at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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Andrea Mosie is holding one of the Lunar samples, bagged and inside the containment cabinet.

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Lunar sample bagged and inside a containment cabinet at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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Lunar sample bagged and inside a containment cabinet at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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Andrea Mosie is holding one of the Lunar samples, bagged and inside the containment cabinet.

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Andrea Moise indicates records kept for Lunar rock sampling/analysis.

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Andrea Moise indicates records kept for Lunar rock sampling/analysis.

Andrea Moise talks with my wife, Eunmi Cho.

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My wife, Eunmi Cho views a Lunar sample through a microscope in the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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Lunar sample bagged and inside a containment cabinet at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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I am holding a Lunar sample - bagged to prevent contamination - in my hand.

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Andrea Moise works with the combination to the vault to the Lunar samples that have been returned after examination worldwide.

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Andrea Moise indicates the Lunar samples from the various Apollo missions in the Returned Samples vault area.

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The Lunar samples from the various Apollo missions in the Returned Samples vault area.

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I am holding an encased Lunar sample in the Returned Samples vault area.

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Slides of Lunar samples from the various Apollo missions in the Returned Samples vault area.

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Part of my "bunny suit" to keep the area pristine.

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"Bunny suit" area before entering the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility.

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Tour courtesy of Dr. Dean Muirhead and Andrea Moise, NASA.

Photos by Tom R. Chambers and Eunmi Cho.

Copyright 2019.