Half a century later NASA is pondering a return to the Moon, as a stepping stone for missions to Mars and the asteroids.
At the same time a growing number of private firms have ambitions to mine precious metals from those celestial bodies, too.
One of the (many) problems that NASA and the space-prospecting crowd will have to solve is what to do about the dust.
Fortunately for them Kavya Manyapu, an engineer at Boeing who has been working with scientists from NASA’s Glenn Research Centre, may have a solution.