'This is not at all 'icky.' This is incredible.'
and pristine moon dust for study, Brooks was the first to be trusted with lunar samples, albeit inside eight preserved cockroaches.Though she described being able to see the moon dust inside the insects with the naked eye, Brooks dissected them to prepare tissue slides for microscopic study. She worked with a group of cockroaches that were fed a"half-and-half" diet of raw lunar regolith and regular food, alongside a set that ingested sterilized moon dirt.
"I found no evidence of infectious agents," she told the newspaper at the time, adding that she also found no signs the lunar soil was toxic or hazardous to the cockroaches. Despite the clean bill of health, Brooks continued her studies, retaining the slides and cockroach carcasses.Brooks retired from the university in 1986, but sometime before then, she took what remained of her lunar work — one of the tissue slides, a newspaper clipping describing her studies, a postcard of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, a replica of the Apollo 11 plaque left on the moon and a commemorative stamped envelope — and arranged them in a specimen mount.
At the center of the display, Brooks placed a small glass vial with"ground fines of lunar sample recovered from biological tests" and three of the preservedShe then hung the mementos on a wall in her house, where they remained for many years. Brooks died at her home in 2007 at the age of 89. Entomologist Marion Brooks' specimen-mount display of her Apollo 11 lunar mementos, including three preserved cockroaches and a sample of the Apollo 11 moon dust removed from within them.
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