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Saturday, 20 July 2019

ESA updates lunar tool kit for future Moon explorers

The new kit will be used by future lunar astronauts

When the Apollo 11 astronauts set foot on the Moon, one of their main tasks was to break out a special tool kit that they used for collecting samples of rock and soil for return to Earth. Now the French company Comex is working under an ESA contract to create an updated version to be used by the next generation of lunar explorers and is testing it under simulated lunar conditions.

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