Plant research in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Rocks brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts were stored, catalogued and studied in the

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Plant research in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory. Rocks brought back from the Moon by the Apollo astronauts were stored, catalogued and studied in the Manned Spacecraft Center's (MSC) Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Here, researcher Charles Walkinshaw (1935-2014) is handling germ-free plants grown within the LRL. Growth of gnotobiotic plants free of microbial association was a key element in preparing plants for interaction with lunar samples. Photographed in 1970.

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