Rare NASA footage from 1969 shows scientists searching for signs of extraterrestrial life after astronauts from the historic Apollo 11 mission brought back samples from the moon
When the Apollo 11 astronauts returned to Earth after their historic moon landing, they brought back lunar samples for scientists to study. In light of the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing, which occurs Saturday, NASA has released rare footage of those scientists checking the samples for signs of life.
The previously unreleased 16-mm film footage was remastered.In the footage, biologists and chemists can be seen studying the samples at NASA's Ames Research Center in California. They worked with the samples in a clean room to rule out any possibility of corrupting them."We were really concerned about contaminating the samples with our own bacteria," said Caye Johnson, a now-retired biologist from Ames who worked with the Apollo lunar samples.
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