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This stainless steel bolt-top container was used to store and transport Apollo-returned lunar material. The canister held the moon rocks in a pure nitrogen inert environment pressurized to 1 atm. Between uses, the container was vacuum sealed, which is how this container was received nearly 40 years later, but not before being first soaked in peracetic acid to sterilize its surface. [Text and photo copyright © collectSPACE.com. All rights reserved. Original source: http://www.collectspace.com/collection/artifactspadlrlcan.html]
