# @thespacegal on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CCbPg5IFbWL
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/19515685-thespacegal-instagram
- **Posted:** 2020-07-09T15:03:42.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Emily Calandrelli (@thespacegal) — https://gondola.cc/thespacegal

## Caption

Day dreaming about the days where I was looking at moon rocks. 🚀🌙⁣
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Biggest questions on this one:⁣
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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.⁣
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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.⁣
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🧑🏾‍🔬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" 😲⁣
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🧫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.⁣
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xplorationstation #xplorationouterspace #space #nasa #science #apollo

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apollo, science, nasa, space, xplorationouterspace

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