Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility

Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility

Vintage (left) and contemporary (right) glove boxes as seen in 2015
Established	1979 (1979)
Field of research	Geology
Address	Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center
Location	Houston, Texas, U.S. 29°33′34″N 95°05′00″W / 29.5594°N 95.0833°W / 29.5594; -95.0833
ZIP code	77058
Operating agency	NASA
Website	curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/laboratory_tour.cfm

The Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility (LSLF) is a repository and laboratory facility at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, opened in 1979 to house geologic samples returned from the Moon by the Apollo program missions to the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972. The facility preserves most of the 382 kilograms (842 lb) of lunar material returned over the course of Apollo program and other extraterrestrial samples, along with associated data records. It also contains laboratories for processing and studying the samples without contamination.