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Neil Armstrong’s Moon Bag Could Fetch $4 Million at Auction

Neil Armstrong’s Moon Bag Could Fetch $4 Million at Auction

May 22, 2017 News, Uncategorized
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$995 Grab Bag That Contains Moon Dust Could Fetch $4 Million at Auction
A small white pouch marked “Lunar Sample Return,” which Nancy Lee Carlson bought two years ago for $995, is expected to fetch as much as $4 million at an upcoming auction. That’s because it’s sprinkled with moon dust.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong filled the bag with rocks from the lunar Sea of Tranquility during his historic trip to the moon on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission. He turned the bag over to a Houston lab, which emptied it of the rocks and then lost track of it. It eventually turned up on a U.S. Marshals auction website.

Carlson, a Chicago-area attorney. purchased the pouch — along with some other items, in a kind of space-memento grab bag — for $995 and sent it off to NASA for testing. NASA claimed the bag belonged to the agency, and wouldn’t return it until after a long court battle. 

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