Apollo’s Science Legacy

By Elsa Partan

Published December 18, 2017 at 10:23 AM EST

It’s been forty five years since the last Apollo mission. Apollo 17 returned to Earth on December 19, 1972, and no one has set foot on the moon since. But scientists are still studying the samples brought back by Apollo astronauts. We talk to David Kring, principal investigator at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.

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Elsa Partan

Elsa Partan is a producer and newscaster with CAI. She first came to the station in 2002 as an intern and fell in love with radio. She is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. From 2006 to 2009, she covered the state of Wyoming for the NPR member station Wyoming Public Media in Laramie. She was a newspaper reporter at The Mashpee Enterprise from 2010 to 2013. She lives in Falmouth with her husband and two daughters.

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