In the case of Harrison Schmitt, there was an almost zero percent chance he could have had any warning about his allergy: lunar dust. To be honest, I’m surprised the moon even has substances ...

Breathing dust in, as Harrison Schmitt reported during Apollo 17 in 1972, caused sneezing and allergies like "lunar dust hay fever." A NASA study in 2005 noted the particles damaged instrument ...

fine particles of lunar dust that clung to nearly everything, posing potential health risks while causing instrument malfunctions and allergy-like symptoms. As the space sector prepares for future ...

But regardless of when humans make it back to the moon, it turns out that lunar dust will be an even greater issue than it was thought to be during the Apollo missions of the late 1960s and early ...

During the Apollo missions, astronauts faced challenges from sharp, fine particles of lunar dust that clung to nearly everything, posing potential health risks while causing instrument malfunctions ...