From Oak Ridge to the Moon, The Y-12 Moon Box

DVD in a paper sleeve. This is marked UNCLASSIFIED NONSENSITIVE. It has a run time of 5 minutes and 36 seconds.Y-12 had a role in man's first landing on the moon. They fabricated the "moon boxes" - lunar sample return containers - for the Apollo Program.The choice of the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant to perform the design, development, testing, and manufacturingfunctions of the ALSRC and associated hardware programs resulted from the consideration of severalfactors, including the following:1. Complete capabilities were available at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. These capabilities includeddevelopment in the requisite disciplines, available engineering, applicable testing facilities andexperience, extensive manufacturing facilities, and extensive quality control and quality assuranceorganizations at both the contractor and government level.2. Extensive experience and expertise had been acquired in the design, development, testing, andmanufacture of unusual components for other USAEC facilities.3. Scientific support in a large number of fields was readily available from the Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory.4. There was a ready integration of the ALSRC and associated hardware with the vacuum system inthe Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) since that system was also designed and built by the OakRidge Y-12 Plant.A Quality Assurance Program was implemented specifically for the project. The program was based onNASA's quality requirements but was also in accordance with UCC-ND Y-12 Plant quality doctrine whichwas understood to be among the very best in the world. The extensive quality program included allaspects of the project and related hardware to include both the moon box and the receiving laboratory,both of which had to be capable of maintain the lunar material in isolation from earth's environment. …