Space & Exploration1969-1972

842 pounds of the Moon came home

Pounds of lunar rock and soil returned

Apollo astronauts brought approximately 842 pounds of lunar rocks and soil back to Earth.

Collected across the six landings. Some of it is still sealed, deliberately left unopened for instruments that had not been invented yet.

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