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Second Apollo 11 sample return container in Vacuum Laboratory

A close-up of the second Apollo 11 sample return container in the Vacuum Laboratory of the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory, bldg 37. This rock box was opened for the first time at 1 p.m., August 4, 1969. Some of the material has already been removed in this view. The stainless steel can contains some coarse lunar surface material.



Catalog Date: 04 August 1969
Film Type: 35mm BW
NASA image: S69-45507


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