NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been ...
Remarkable Rarities auctioned off cockroaches and moon dust collected during an Apollo 11 mission in 1969, per The AP. The auctioned materials were used in an experiment to determine if lunar rocks ...
'NASA asserts legal ownership of the materials...' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As it turns out, attempting to sell moon dust ...
The sale was halted after the space agency claimed it owned everything associated with a 1969 experiment that explored whether lunar soil was dangerous to terrestrial life. By Vimal Patel Unanswered ...
The lunar dust was fed to cockroaches in an experiment to see if it contained any pathogens that presented a hazard to terrestrial life. Now, the space agency has urged Boston-based RR Auction to stop ...
NASA wants its moon dust and cockroaches back. The space agency has asked Boston-based RR Auction to halt the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission that had subsequently been ...