Souvenirs from the moon
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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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.
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