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Apollo lunar rocks still offer clues to scientists

Forty years after the Apollo 11 astronauts made their historic lunar landing, the rocks they collected are still helping researchers learn more about the moon, the solar system, even about how life on Earth began.
But if not for a St. Louis scientist and a few of his colleagues, NASA may never have collected moon rocks in the first place....

The Apollo rocks might not have been collected at all if not for the efforts of Washington University physics professor Robert Walker and a small group of other scientists. Walker, who died in 2004, helped persuade NASA to not only collect samples but build a repository for their storage and study at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Read entire article at AP