I have some dust bunnies under the couch if anyone is interested.
Just like the IRS...................Is there really any difference between bureaucracies?..........
Snort that stuff, man -- the high is out of this world!
Were any of those official NASA kakistocrats prosecuted for their actions? Or serve jail time?
I have a lump of coal from the Titanic wreck.
Its like Christopher Columbus selling “new world dirt.”
I have a feeling mankind will be getting back there in the not so distant future.
Once again, the passive voice is used to hide or minimize government screwups.
....Local woman’s bag of moon dust to be sold at auction, possibly for millions...
Unless the Feds decide to seize it again.
Moon Dust. It sounds like a Dirty Martini using Grey Goose vodka with a ‘liberal’ splash of vermouth.
“A Fall of Moondust”
Moon dust. Bit coins. Unicorns. Groovy, man.
Armstrong, the first person to set foot on the lunar surface, scooped some lunar rocks into a bag, then placed it into another bag, and put it in the pocket of his space suit.
Why can't the media strive for accuracy even for otherwise noncontroversial topics?
Armstrong didn't want a 'souvenir.' He was the mission commander carrying out the mission plan ie to get a contingency sample in the event of a shortened or aborted lunar landing that would have prevented full collection of moon rocks. Untold dollars, man hours and a few precious lives were spent in launching Apollo 11 and nothing was left to chance.
The point of the damn thing was to explore and study the moon. Which he did.
Part of the reason NASA was trying to keep the stuff is because we weren’t sure at the time what was in the “moon dust.”
The first thing they did was isolate the crew and go over them fine toothed for three weeks to make sure they were not carrying something we had no idea what it was from the moon. So introducing dust into the civilian world was like giving it the bird flu. It might have killed millions.
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I have a bag of star dust. Wonder what I could auction it off for?
Lunar rock and dust brought back from moon is very rare and other than a few samples is held by US govt and scientists.
Lunar rock that was ejected from surface of moon by meteor strikes and then captured by earths gravity and survived entry through earths atmosphere, and found on earth is also rare but not as valuable usually. There are only 71 meteorites classified as lunar meteorite’s. I am one of those few people who own a small piece of lunar rock. NWA 5406 Lunar Meteorite.
I bought it from a large meteorite collector years ago when he cut a lunar meteorite and then sold a few chips that broke off during the cutting. I had a second piece of lunar rock which I sold 2 years ago. I also have Mars rock, small samples. NWA 1068.
I enjoy meteorite collecting and meteorites value keeps going up. My largest meteorite is a piece of iron meteorite found in Egypt. About the size of a cantelope.
My Mars meteorites. ....
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meteor/metbull.php?sea=NWA+1068&sfor=names&ants=&falls=&valids=&stype=contains&lrec=50&map=ge&browse=&country=All&srt=name&categ=All&mblist=All&rect=&phot=&snew=0&pnt=Normal%20table&code=17116
Any other FReepers collect meteorites or Opals which I also collect?