As the chocolate buyer and taster for Fortnum & Mason since 2003, she has worked her way through more than a pound of samples daily.
They brought with them almost 50 pounds of geological samples, according to the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
He and Schmitt spent spent some 22 hours on the lunar surface over three days, collecting 250 pounds of moon samples. .
The spacecraft has a small return vehicle that is meant to hold about half a pound of soil samples, plus other instruments and equipment.
About 2000 pound of experiment samples and equipment were also transferred back from Mir to Atlantis, making the total transfer the most extensive yet.
They also collected 42.6 kg (94 pounds) of rock and soil samples to be studied.
The capsule was loaded with about 1,400 pounds of used equipment, experiment samples and other items -- but not garbage.
They also took about 23 kg (50 pounds) of rock and soil samples, took many photographs, and maintained constant communication with mission control in Houston, Texas.
Then he suffered a major blow: 400 pounds of crab, meant as samples, were detained in a cargo area of Kennedy Airport because Mr. González had hired the wrong broker to help get it through customs.
The saga ends, as it must, with the death of Scott and four of his men, but Larson makes much of the fact that the party took the time to gather 35 pounds of fossils and rock samples from the Beardmore Glacier and carry them back — a sacrifice for science that may have cost them their lives.
