Mar 30 1969
From The Space Library
Thomas O'Toole in Washington Post said plans for handling lunar samples [see March 12] had stirred bitter scientific controversy. Tests scheduled at NASA'S Lunar Receiving Laboratory would last at least two months while scientists waited for "the chance to study what amounts to a Rosetta stone that could hold the clue to the origin of life itself." At close of examination period, NASA Would parcel out moon rocks to 110 scientists from group of 600 and even "chosen few" had no guarantee of receiving piece of moon. LRL official had explained that if NASA found, for example, that there was absolutely no evidence of radioactive argon, "It would be quite foolish to waste a sample on a man . . . whose primary goal was to look for radioactive argon." Scientists also were disturbed over involvement of other Federal agencies in lunar sample handling. (W Post, 3/30/69, Al)
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