moondust

The Regolith Simulant Team has been busy busting rocks to make "moondust".

Archive 2009-01-01 Fred Kiesche 2009

Inside, caked and matted with "moondust," as everyone called it, stood double rows of armored Humvees, armed GMVs (ground mobility vehicles), and Toyota Land Cruisers — the essential elements of a new kind of convoy warfare, in which Special Ops was adapting tactics more from the Mad Max style of the Eritrean and Chadian guerrillas of recent decades than from the lumbering tank armies of the passing Industrial Age.

Imperial Grunts 2005

Inside, caked and matted with "moondust," as everyone called it, stood double rows of armored Humvees, armed GMVs (ground mobility vehicles), and Toyota Land Cruisers — the essential elements of a new kind of convoy warfare, in which Special Ops was adapting tactics more from the Mad Max style of the Eritrean and Chadian guerrillas of recent decades than from the lumbering tank armies of the passing Industrial Age.

Imperial Grunts 2005

It was dark and cold, and the pouring rain had turned the "moondust" on the base into deep, sticky gumbo.

Latest Articles 2009

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder!

Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder!

Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012

The actual lunar spacesuits with traces of moondust still on them give me the chills.

Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- 11 Hours in the Air and Space Museum Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder!

Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012

The actual lunar spacesuits with traces of moondust still on them give me the chills.

Zoe P. Strassfield: Space History in DC -- 11 Hours in the Air and Space Museum Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

There was a even a little display that let you smell simulated moondust; I agree with what the astronauts said about the traces that were left on their spacesuits: It smells a little like spent gunpowder!

Zoe P. Strassfield: Going Beyond Planet Earth at the American Museum of Natural History Zoe P. Strassfield 2012