Hi Tom and list, It is my believe and opinion that America, its tax payers benefited greatly from this sound investment of going to the moon. The computer you are typing on now is one such spin off and there are hundreds of more spin-offs not to mention the Lunar Samples that were returned. The Apollo Program didn't cost us, it paid us with knowledge and technology.
I don't know where you live or how close you are to a space museum but I have seen several dozens of lunar samples over the years, perhaps as many as a hundred specimens. I have helped a curator, unvault a fairly large sample and place it in the protective case but got to hold the triangular encasement and look at the sample real close up and appreciate it in all its glory. I have seen many samples in the nice little plastic encasements that are used with microscopes that are on loan to those wanting to display, study samples. We have even had samples loan through a teacher (who had credentials to get this material) in our relatively small town. A trip to the Smithsonian will allow you to see lunar samples. I'm not really a pro-NASA supporter (neither am I against) but considering how small of a piece of the pie they got in the Apollo era to do what they did, I wish all of our government agencies could run as effectively as NASA did at that time. We would get a 90% refund check each year! --AL ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
