WashU scientists help recover gases from Moon rock time capsule

by Talia Ogliore for WUSTL News

St. Louis MO (SPX) Mar 08, 2022 Scientists from Washington University in St. Louis are helping to recover gases from a container of lunar soil that astronauts collected and sealed under vacuum on the surface of the Moon in 1972. The effort is part of NASA's Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis (ANGSA) initiative. Apollo 17 astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan collected the samp