Moon Dust and Bio Science

The Bio Center Lab at NASA's Johnson Space Center has been around for more than fifty years, but it is one of those national research facilities that has been able to contain its discoveries beyond public purview. What goes on there is probably beyond the imagination of even the most creative curiosity seeeker. One of its discoveries that accidently escaped had to do with the interaction of moon dust and corn seeds.

At the Bio Lab there used to be a giant corn growing chamber. During and following the Apollo missions to the moon, collected rock samples and lunar dust were brought here for study. Moon dust was sprinkled on corn before planting, and something amazing occurred. In the words of former Johnson Space Center Director Chris Kraft: “We found when we started sprinkling some lunar dust on a corn seed or on a piece of tobacco plant or on some other low form of plant life… it grew so rapidly and did things that nobody had ever seen before in terms of any other chemical that you could place on a plant. And we don't understand that. It looks like something from another world.”

A little moon dust sprinkled on a corn seed accelerated its growth and production far beyond normal. At first glance, imagine what this could mean – certainly nothing less than the end of world famine to start with. What would it do on rice? What about its use on every other agricultural crop?

What is it about moon dust that would give it this effect? Different kinds of crystals and different combinations of minerals to enhance cellular reproduction of living systems at the cellular level? Is it working on the DNA? Is it working on the mitochondria?

Surely NASA took this basic finding far beyond corn. It seems reasonable to conject that if it works on plants, it should work on us too. What if a compound like that were to be sprinkled on an open wound during surgery? Imagine how fast tissue might heal and perhaps leave no scar. What if it is mixed with antibiotics? Or in an IV? Certainly the great minds at NASA have thought about these and staggeringly far grreater questions. When are they going to share what they found with the rest of us – the taxpayers who ultimately have subsidized their efforts?