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Stories about: moon dust

The Moon's Most Dreaded Feature Is Dust Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major problem: lunar dust. As professor La... 26 September 2008 07:45 GMT