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They are the only verified moon samples to be sold into private hands and the journey they took to the auction house was almost as epic as the voyage Armstrong made to retrieve them.
A sample of moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong during the historic Apollo 11 mission, that first put humans on the Moon went under the hammer and was sold for a whopping $504,375 at an auction on Wednesday. Even though this is a huge amount, the estimated auction price was much higher. As per Bonhams the auctioneers in charge of this sale, it was expected to sell for between $800,000 and $1.2 million.
A rare piece—or rather pieces—of space history are about to go to the highest bidder. Five samples of moon dust collected by Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk...
Today’s auction is the culmination of a sordid saga involving Apollo astronauts, multiple lawsuits, and scientists aching for a chance to study rare lunar materials.
You know when someone says that they want to give you the moon? Well, now it can be possible as Neil Armstrong’s collected samples from his 1969 Ap...