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the first thing we do is we put it in

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this catapult looking device that you

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see here we call it the rocket launcher

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the end caps are taken off of the drive

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tube and then

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threaded metal rods with plates on the

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end were actually inserted into either

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end then the sample is picked up from

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the rocket launcher and it's put into

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this device over here with the wheel on

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it as that wheel gets turned very slowly

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the threads engage and the rod starts to

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that core

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was collected by gene cernan

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as i was working on the edge of a of a

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crater nearby

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one of the most important tools that we

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had was this

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core tube a double drive tube and you

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could drive these into the surface now

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still very difficult

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it was the best we had and we got a

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quite a number of very good cores that

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are giving us new information not only

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about the nature of this debris layer

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but also within those cores is a history

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it was anticipated early on in the

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apollo program

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that

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analytical technology would mature would

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become much more sophisticated with time

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that we could gain new information from

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the same old samples it makes it

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very very exciting for everybody in fact

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apollo never ended for lunar scientists

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our analytical techniques have gotten to

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the point where we can actually detect

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the water that is in some of these

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ancient ludar rocks we've actually been

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able to constrain

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that there is a common history and a

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common source between the earthman

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system which is what we have learned

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previously by other studies of the

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apollo lunar samples that we have

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x-ray computed tomography or xct now

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this is a way for us to actually look at

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the three-dimensional structure of a

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there's a whole industry of engineers

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who are studying how to extract

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resources from the moon and so one of

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the things that we want to do during

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artemis is actually test out some of

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these new technologies and see how

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effective they are at extracting the

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water and these other materials thinking

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forward to mars we've only ever sent

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robotic missions to mars and so when we

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send people to mars these are things

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we're going to have to consider so this

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core has a multitude of the information

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to give us and we're as you can tell i

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think all of us are very excited about

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getting a chance to work on it there's a

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lot we don't know about the rest of the

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moon and there's a lot we don't know

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about in between these various sites

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that apollo landed at and so gathering

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new information uh particularly from the

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south pole but there are many other

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areas on the far side that will start to

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define much more uh give us much more

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information about lunar science you have

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to remember that everything we're

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learning about the moon

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relates to the very early history of the

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solar system and particularly to the

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very early history of the earth

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