NASA is currently studying old, still intact, lunar samples brought back from its legendary Apollo missions on the Moon. This announcement comes at a time when the American federal space agency is carefully preparing its return to the Moon, via its next Artemis missions. It took nearly 50 years for NASA to decide to open the last lunar sample brought back by the Apollo 17 mission, in December 1972. Never opened before, it is currently being studied in Houston via the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, which meticulously stores all of NASA’s extraterrestrial samples. Rese…