Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James Irwin join NASA geologists William Phinney, James W. Head, and Gary Lofgren in observing lunar samples in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
David Scott inspects the "Genesis Rock" at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (known as the Manned Spacecraft Center at the time).
Creator
NASA
Source
NASA Image and Video Library
Date
August 12, 1971
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
Background on the Genesis Rock can be found here: https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.spur.html
Astronauts David R. Scott, left foreground, and James B. Irwin, right foreground, join the Manned Spacecraft Center's geologists in getting first looks at some of the first Apollo 15 samples to be opened in the Non-Sterile Nitrogen Processing Line in the MSC Lunar Receiving Laboratory (NASA).