You can be the owner of real moon dust collected by none other than Neil Armstrong.
One of the few photographs of Neil Armstrong on the moon shows him working on his space craft on the lunar surface.Moon dust samples collected by none other than Neil Armstrong himself during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 are currently up for auction.
The auction item up for bid at Bonhams in New York City includes five samples of lunar dust worth up to $1.2 million, according to the"I think one of the keys for this is that it’s from the contingency sample.
When Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to step onto the lunar surface, they gathered a small "contingency sample" of dust before carrying out the rest of their mission should things go wrong,An astonishing achievement, the mission delivered on President Kennedy’s 1961 promise to land an American on the moon by the end of that decade. With the American flag flying proudly on the Sea of Tranquility, the United States had finally won its space race with the Soviet Union.
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Particles of Apollo 11 Moon Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong for Sale at AuctionThe auction item, which includes five samples of lunar dust, is a rare piece of space history and could be worth up to $1.2 million, according to Bonhams, the auction house handling the sale.
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Particles of Apollo 11 Moon Dust Collected by Neil Armstrong for Sale at AuctionThe auction item, which includes five samples of lunar dust, is a rare piece of space history and could be worth up to $1.2 million, according to Bonhams, the auction house handling the sale.
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Microscopic Apollo 11 moon dust sells for $500K at Bonhams auctionRobert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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