ОписаниеAEC-70-8665 APOLLO MOONBOX. . .Special vacuum containers were fabricated by the Atomic Energy Commission's Y-12 Plant for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The aluminum containers were used by Apollo astronauts to transport lunar specimens back to earth. C. H. McCallister of the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant uses a fluorescent light and a needle-sized vacuum cleaner to remove lint particles from the Apollo moonbox. The cleaning operation is one of a series of pre-flight decontamination steps to assure that there will be no earth dirt in the box to contaminate soil samples obtained from the moon. Credit: Union Carbide Nuclear Photo