[eartrumpet]

I got to stay up and watch the landing and the first steps.

At some point in my childhood I have a memory of a group of kids being able to handle a moon rock about the size of a thick thumb. We passed it around. It was white gray and had little darker specks. Is that a wrong memory or did they let some specimens get handled?

[PeaceBeWithYou]

I remember getting to handle one at JSC on a school field trip, it was encased in Lexan.

FYI: You can find moon rocks on Earth, so it is possible what you remember passing around was a Lunar Meteorite.