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Souvenirs from the moon

By Mark Alden Branch ’86 | 8:17am July 19 2019

Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon. Two months later, Yale got a shipment of lunar rocks and dust collected on the mission—a loan from NASA. Four Yale geologists put the samples to the test.

Filed under Apollo 11, moon, geology
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