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Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility
NASA facility in Houston, Texas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility (LSLF) is a repository and laboratory facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The facility preserves most of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar material returned over the course of Apollo program and other extraterrestrial samples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination.
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Established | 1979 (1979) |
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Field of research | Geology |
Address | Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center |
Location | Houston, Texas, U.S. 29.5594°N 95.0833°W / 29.5594; -95.0833 |
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Operating agency | NASA |
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