This 13 day adventure in space took Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt to the Valley of Taurus-Littrow in the southeastern rim of the 500 km. After 72 hours on the lunar surface, including 22 hours outside the lunar module Challenger, the astronauts returned over 250 pounds of samples to Earth. The story of this mission captures all the adventure, excitement, beauty, and human drama of the exploration of space. Emergency Rehabilitation Team provides eighth update Protect Laboratory facilities and infrastructure Construction has begun on a temporary concrete barrier in front of the cooling tower at the Omega West reactor, located at TA-2. The barrier has been put in place to guard against potential flooding in Los Alamos Canyon in the near-term.
Plans are underway to completely remove the cooling tower.
Johnson Controls Northern New Mexico crews are removing the catwalk and other rails from the top of Los Alamos reservoir. The work is being done to prepare the dam for fortification efforts proposed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. A volunteer group of roughly 100 Laboratory workers began burned area rehabilitation efforts today on 80 acres of Forest Service property in Pajarito Canyon. The workers will continue to be paid their regular salaries while conducting the rehabilitation efforts, which include contour raking, mulching and seeding. BMPs include the placing of protective jute matting, rock gabions, log-silt barrier and straw wattles.