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Johnson Space Center">Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Houston" title="Houston">Houston, Texas</a>, opened in 1979 to house <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon" title="Geology of the Moon">geologic</a> <a href="/wiki/Moon_rock" title="Moon rock">samples</a> returned from the <a href="/wiki/Moon" title="Moon">Moon</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a> missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The facility preserves most of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar material returned over the course of Apollo program and other extraterrestrial samples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Planning for handling returned lunar samples began early in the Apollo program. In 1964, a proposal was made for a small (10 square meters (110 sq ft)) sample receiving laboratory equipped with remote-controlled manipulators operating in a sterile, high-vacuum chamber to prepare samples for distribution to scientists, and this proposal was subsequently expanded to include a <a href="/wiki/Cleanroom" title="Cleanroom">clean room</a> with analytical instruments for performing preliminary analyses on the samples.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A committee of the Space Science Board reviewed the idea of a lunar sample receiving laboratory and sought to address multiple concerns. One was the fear that creating a facility with too great a capacity to analyze the samples would discourage distribution of samples to outside researchers and effectively exclude them.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition, space biologists and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service" title="United States Public Health Service">United States Public Health Service</a> expressed concern about "<a href="/wiki/Back_contamination" class="mw-redirect" title="Back contamination">back contamination</a>" of Earth by <a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial_life" title="Extraterrestrial life">extraterrestrial microorganisms</a> brought back via returning spacecraft,<sup id="cite_ref-No_Man_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-No_Man-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (although many of the astronauts and scientists involved in the program were skeptical that non-terrestrial microorganisms could survive lunar conditions). To address these issues, the committee in 1965 recommended a laboratory with limited analytical capacity and an ability to quarantine the returning astronauts and samples.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The result of this planning was the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Receiving_Laboratory" title="Lunar Receiving Laboratory">Lunar Receiving Laboratory</a> (LRL) in Building 37 at the Johnson Space Center, built to process and conduct basic analysis on lunar materials and to quarantine the materials and astronauts.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The requirement that astronauts be quarantined following their missions was dropped beginning with <a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a>.) The 8,000-square-meter (86,000 sq ft) LRL was completed in 1967 at a cost of $7.8 million.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The LRL was used for study, distribution and safe storage of the samples, but although the LRL had adequate facilities to process samples for the current mission, the facility was not ideal, and it lacked facilities to process or store samples from previous missions.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> To address some of these concerns, <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> dropped the requirement after <a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a> that samples be processed in vacuum (in favor of a simpler-to-work-in nitrogen atmosphere). An additional vault and, subsequently, a new laboratory – the Sample Storage and Processing Laboratory (SSPL) – were built in Building 31 of the Johnson Space Center. All lunar samples were moved from the LRL to Building 31 after the last Apollo mission<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Nonetheless, there were still concerns about the adequacy of the facility and about the wisdom of maintaining the entire collection of lunar samples in a single facility that might be vulnerable to natural disasters (especially the hurricanes to which Houston is vulnerable) and military actions. The collection was divided among multiple vaults at the Johnson Space Center while a vault was built in an empty ammunition bunker at <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Air_Force_Base" title="Brooks Air Force Base">Brooks Air Force Base</a> in <a href="/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas" class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas">San Antonio, Texas</a>, as second-site storage. Fourteen percent of the lunar sample collection was moved to this bunker in 1976, transported secretly at night with a police escort in a specially modified passenger bus.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This smaller collection of materials remained at Brooks until 2002, when the base was transitioned from military control as part of the <a href="/wiki/Base_Realignment_and_Closure_Commission" class="mw-redirect" title="Base Realignment and Closure Commission">Base Realignment and Closure</a> process. The second-site lunar materials were then moved to the <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Test_Facility" title="White Sands Test Facility">White Sands Test Facility</a>, where a new, smaller facility was built inside an existing secure building to house the samples.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar samples returned by the Apollo program, 52 kilograms (115 lb) are currently stored at White Sands.<sup id="cite_ref-WSTF_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSTF-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With a selection of the lunar samples secured offsite, construction began on the LSLF, with state-of-the-art facilities for handling the samples and better protection against natural disasters. The LSLF was constructed in a new annex of Building 31 (Building 31N at the Johnson Space Center) beginning in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-25_Years_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25_Years-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Built for a cost of $2.5 million, the building was dedicated on July 20, 1979, the tenth anniversary of the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">first human Moon landing</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg/500px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="281" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg/750px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg/1000px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a><figcaption>Apollo 11 lunar samples cabinet in the storage vault</figcaption></figure> <p>The two-story, 1,300-square-meter (14,000 sq ft) facility consists of storage vaults for the samples, laboratories for sample preparation and study, a vault for sample data and records, and machinery to supply nitrogen to the cabinets in which the samples are stored and processed.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The facility's storage vaults are elevated above anticipated storm-surge sea level heights to protect the samples from threats posed by hurricanes and tornadoes.<sup id="cite_ref-LSLF_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSLF-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During hurricane threats, a water-tight door is bolted into the frame of the door to the pristine sample vault in order to protect the samples.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The facility takes extensive measures to prevent contamination of the lunar samples. For example: </p> <ul><li>All materials used in constructing and equipping the building (including floor coverings, walls, plumbing, light fixtures, and paint) were carefully screened to exclude chemical elements that would pose unacceptable contamination threats to the lunar samples.<sup id="cite_ref-LSLF_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSLF-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Air in the facility is filtered to remove all suspended particles, and the air in the laboratories and vaults is maintained at <a href="/wiki/Positive_pressure" title="Positive pressure">slightly higher than atmospheric pressure</a> to keep unfiltered air from entering. The particulate concentration of the air in the various areas is monitored regularly.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>People entering laboratories and vaults are required to don <a href="/wiki/Cleanroom_suit" title="Cleanroom suit">cleanroom suits</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Most samples are not handled directly. Researchers prepare samples in <a href="/wiki/Glovebox" title="Glovebox">stainless steel cabinets through multi-layered gloves</a>. The atmosphere in these cabinets is purged by high-purity nitrogen that is continuously monitored for oxygen and moisture contents. When research requires that a sample be exposed to contamination, the sample is kept separate from pristine samples after its return.<sup id="cite_ref-LSLF_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSLF-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>To avoid cross-contamination of samples from different places on the Moon, samples from different missions are not processed together in the same cabinet, but one or more cabinets are designated for processing samples from a particular mission. When cabinets become dusty from extensive processing or are needed for processing samples from a different mission, they are cleaned using ultra-pure water.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>The facility has room to store many more lunar samples. <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a> anticipates that more samples from the Moon will be brought back and processed and curated in the lab.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Samples_stored_at_facility_and_other_lunar_samples">Samples stored at facility and other lunar samples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Samples stored at facility and other lunar samples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg/200px-Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg/300px-Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg/400px-Apollo_15_Genesis_Rock.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1024" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Genesis_Rock" title="Genesis Rock">Genesis Rock</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The facility is the chief repository of the samples returned by the Apollo program.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Apollo missions to the lunar surface (<a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">Apollo 14</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16">Apollo 16</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a>) returned a total of 382 kilograms (842 pounds) of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and lunar surface dust, comprising 2200 individual specimens. Seventy-five percent of the lunar materials returned by Apollo are housed at the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility, most in pristine condition.<sup id="cite_ref-30th_Anniv_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30th_Anniv-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the materials have been processed into smaller samples to meet scientific requirements, resulting in more than 110,000 individually cataloged samples.<sup id="cite_ref-LSLF_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSLF-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Perhaps the most notable of the samples stored at the facility is the <a href="/wiki/Genesis_Rock" title="Genesis Rock">Genesis Rock</a>, a sample ultimately determined to be nearly as old as the Moon itself.<sup id="cite_ref-Gugliotta_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gugliotta-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also at the facility is the sample known as <a href="/wiki/Big_Muley" title="Big Muley">Big Muley</a>, the largest sample returned from the Moon by Apollo.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the Apollo materials, the Johnson Space Center also houses other extraterrestrial samples: </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Antarctica#Meteorites" title="Antarctica">Antarctic meteorites</a> collected on <a href="/wiki/ANSMET" title="ANSMET">ANSMET</a> (ANtarctic Search for METeorites) expeditions funded by the <a href="/wiki/National_Science_Foundation" title="National Science Foundation">National Science Foundation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_dust" title="Cosmic dust">Cosmic dust</a> collected by NASA aircraft</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_wind" title="Solar wind">Solar wind</a> atoms collected by the <a href="/wiki/Genesis_(spacecraft)" title="Genesis (spacecraft)"><i>Genesis</i> spacecraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comet" title="Comet">Comet</a> particles collected by the <a href="/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)" title="Stardust (spacecraft)"><i>Stardust</i> spacecraft</a></li> <li>Interstellar dust particles collected by the <i>Stardust</i> spacecraft<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <p>52 kilograms (115 lb) of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar samples returned by the Apollo program are stored at the <a href="/wiki/White_Sands_Test_Facility" title="White Sands Test Facility">White Sands Test Facility</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WSTF_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WSTF-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other small samples have been distributed to foreign heads of state, U.S. states, museums, and other institutions. NASA has also made a number of educational packs available for exhibition and educational purposes, each consisting of a disc of six small rock and soil samples in a lucite disc and a pack of thin petrological sections. <sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to the lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions, an additional 300 grams (11 oz) of lunar samples were returned to Earth by three automated Soviet spacecraft, <a href="/wiki/Luna_16" title="Luna 16">Luna 16</a>, <a href="/wiki/Luna_20" title="Luna 20">Luna 20</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Luna_24" title="Luna 24">Luna 24</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-tour_5-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tour-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Access_to_facility_and_samples">Access to facility and samples</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Access to facility and samples"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg/220px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="391" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg/330px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg/440px-Lunar_Sample_Lab_4.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2988" data-file-height="5312" /></a><figcaption>Non-pristine samples returned to the lab after research was completed</figcaption></figure> <p>Approximately 100 people visit the facility annually for research or educational purposes, and the facility provides samples to hundreds of others each year for research or educational purposes.<sup id="cite_ref-LSLF_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LSLF-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Researchers seeking samples submit proposals, which are evaluated by an independent peer review panel. 40 to 50 such proposals are approved each year and approximately 400 lunar samples (most weighing less than one gram) are sent to these scientists.<sup id="cite_ref-Gugliotta_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gugliotta-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit 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James Webb Space Telescope">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plankton,_Aerosol,_Cloud,_ocean_Ecosystem" title="Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem">PACE</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europa_Clipper" title="Europa Clipper">Europa Clipper</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NISAR_(satellite)" title="NISAR (satellite)">NISAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope" title="Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DAVINCI" title="DAVINCI">DAVINCI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VERITAS_(spacecraft)" title="VERITAS (spacecraft)">VERITAS</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Space_Communications_and_Navigation_Program" title="Space Communications and Navigation Program">Communications<br />and navigation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Near_Earth_Network" title="Near Earth Network">Near Earth Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Network" title="Space Network">Space Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network" title="NASA Deep Space Network">Deep Space Network</a> (<a href="/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex" title="Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex">Goldstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrid_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex" title="Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex">Madrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex" title="Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex">Canberra</a></li> <li><a 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