A white linen bag containing traces of dust from the Moon was sold last night at Sotheby’s auction in New York for $1,8 million. A small collection bag with zipper was used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in 1969. But this historic bag from the Apollo-11 mission was originally wrongly identified as irrelevant, so it was sold at one auction of various items on the Internet, and NASA then struggled to return it.
Dust From The Moon
In December a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to a Chicago-area woman who bought it in 2015 for $995.
Sotheby’s declined to identify the seller.
Dust From The Moon
