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Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009

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On this day: Aug. 20, 1971

By The Tri-City Herald

Battelle scientists examined two quarter-pound samples of soil and one half-pound rock chip brought back from the moon by Apollo 15 astronauts. Battelle-Northwest is one of the laboratories on the "normal distribution list" for moon samples.



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