... August 2012 Feature . Apollo 15 brings back 4 billion-year-old moon rock . ... That sample, nicknamed the Genesis Rock, sample number 15415, was an anorthosite, a ... Johnson Space Center) later concluded that this rock was about 4 billion years old ...
... This sample is the white anorthositic rock (Genesis Rock) collected by astronauts David R. Scott and James B. Irwin at Site no. 7 at a Ground Elapsed Time of 145 hours and 42 minutes, on the mission's second extravehicular activity (EVA). ...
... mission, gets a close look at the sample referred to as "Genesis rock" in the Non-Sterile Nitrogen Processing Line in the Lunar ... The white-colored rock has been given the permanent identification of 15415.. ...
... Payload Specialist . PERSONAL DATA: Born June 20, 1948, in Rock Island, Illinois. Married. One child. ... EDUCATION: Graduated from high school in Rock Island, Illinois, in 1966; attended Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois; and ...
... From the first moon rocks of the late 1960s to today's Martian meteorites, JSC scientists have led the way in the study of fascinating rocks to better understand how our solar system, and perhaps life itself, came into being. ...