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  • Judge: Mistakenly Sold Apollo 11 Moon Mission Bag Is Buyer's

    12/18/2016 12:40:38 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 28 replies
    ABC News ^ | Dec 14, 2016 | Roxana Hegeman
    A bag used to collect lunar samples during the first manned mission to the moon legally belongs to an Illinois woman who bought it for $995 when it was mistakenly sold during a government auction, a judge ruled Wednesday. Judge J. Thomas Marten, of the U.S. District Court in Wichita, said he doesn't have the authority to reverse the sale of the bag used during the Apollo 11 moon mission in July 1969, even though it shouldn't have gone up for auction. The white bag, which has lunar material embedded in its fabric and which the government considers "a rare...