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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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483-5111 October 20, 1970
R_LEA_ED AT NASA _ADQUARTERS
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has asked the
Post Office Department to look into a delay in delivery of two shipments
of lunar samples from Nassa_L Bay, Texas, to New York City.
The samples_ totaling _out 13 grams, were brought from the Moon
by the Apollo 12 mission in November 1969. They were sent by registered
mail on September 28, 1970, from the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston,
addressed to the Lamont-Doberty Geological Laboratory of Columbia University,
and to the Army Post Office number in New York of the American Embassy in
Saudi Arabia for delivery to a scientist of the U. S. Geological Survey
currently working there. Neither package has been received.
The shipments were made under a program for study of returned
lunar samples by about 200 teams of university_ government and industrial
scientists in the United States and abroad.
The NASA Inspections Division is participating with Post Office
inspections in the investigation.
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