Of course over countless years meteor hits on the moon had been blasting moon dust into earth’s atmosphere.
It’s a sterile ball, no more harmful than most earth dust.
There is no special law applicable here. Only ordinary laws about integrity of transactions.
“It’s a sterile ball, no more harmful than most earth dust.”
Yes, we know that now. But at the time they didn’t and if they had to isolate the crew members for three weeks to make sure, but let the bag get into the population, I’d say they screwed up and could have allowed something in the dust to get into our population. Soil can hold illnesses and since it was isolated on the moon for so long, they didn’t have any more idea what was in the soil than they did on the crew. Not real bright letting it get into the population unless it was done after the crew was released from isolation and we knew it wasn’t tainted. But if it had been checked independenty, it would have been on record at NASA and wouldn’t have reached the population as the article said they were very good at keeping everything. Obviously they didn’t do well with this.
rwood