NASA has been lost or wrong more than 500 in the stones of the Apollo astronauts collected and brought back to Earth, according to a new agency report.
In an audit released Thursday (December 8), the NASA Office of Inspector General stated that the Agency does not "have enough control over lending the Moon rocks and astromaterials others, who increases the risk that this unique sumber-daya likely lost."
The report stressed the importance of maintaining strict guidelines for the release of lunar materials for researchers, and more thorough inventory procedures for storage and back.
"NASA has suffered a loss because of the lunar samples astromaterials first return the Apollo missions," Inspector General Paul k. Martin detail in the report. "In addition to the disk mount Cuba, NASA confirmed that other loans have 516 astromaterials is lost or stolen between 1970 and June 2010, including an 18-month sample was reported missing by researchers in 2010 and 218 lunar meteorites and samples were stolen from a researcher at NASA'S Johnson Space Center in 2002, but has since recovered."
And while the entity is reported to be missing the Moon rock samples of the 649, even more than these precious ingredients may have been misguided, according to the report. Photos of NASA Apollo Moon Mission '