Chris Burns - Jan 22, 2021, 10:01am CST
A hunk of the moon was delivered to the Biden administration on January 20, 2021. At the request of the President of the United States, NASA delivered a container with a sample of the lunar surface for display in the Oval Office. This piece of our nearest space neighbor now sits in the most important office in the world, in the White House, “in symbolic recognition of earlier generations’ ambitions and accomplishments, and support for America’s current Moon to Mars exploration approach.”
The Biden Administration requested the sample from the Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. This triangular case carries a moon rock, suspended in space, available for viewing from several angles.