Day dreaming about the days where I was looking at moon rocks. 🚀🌙⁣ ⁣ Biggest questions on this one:⁣ ⁣ Why so much security???⁣ 🔐Yes - this is a 9,000 lb door 😲. And it's also a clean room. They do this to protect the rocks from outside contaminants, from natural disasters...and from anyone who might want to steal them.⁣ ⁣ How many rocks?⁣ ⛰️The Apollo missions brought home 842 lbs of lunar rocks from 2,196 samples. 6 of these samples remain untouched today. The rest were broken down into 140,000 pieces.⁣ ⁣ 🧑🏾‍🔬Where did the pieces go?⁣ Some were given as gifts to other countries, but most are used for research. They're "borrowed" by researchers who conduct various experiments on them. Some...have been "lost" 😲⁣ ⁣ 🧫Why keep some samples intact?⁣ We don't know what the future holds! There may be better technology in the future that would allow us to do NEW science we'd never thought of before.⁣ ⁣ xplorationstation #xplorationouterspace #space #nasa #science #apollo