Last moon landing was 40 years ago today
No matter how impressed you are by Curiosity's martian trundlings or the various private space programs showing us all the final frontier isn't just the province of governments, the fact remains that as of today it's 40 years since a human set foot on the moon. December 11th, 1972, was the day when Apollo 17 touched down on the …
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Pedantry Alert...
"[The Apollo 17 astronauts] gathered more than 110kgs [of] soil"
There's no soil on the moon, just regolith. Soil is composed, in part, of decomposed organic matter; the moon has none of that. (Well not until 1969 at least [1].)
[1] http://boingboing.net/2009/06/16/poop-on-the-moon-and.html
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