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NASA wants its cockroaches and moon dust back from an auction company that is selling the materials obtained during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
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NASA wants its cockroaches and moon dust back from an auction company that is selling the materials obtained during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission.
As it turns out, attempting to sell moon dust that was extracted from the stomachs of cockroaches does indeed bug NASA. So much so, that the space agency requested RR Auction halt its sale.
BOSTON, June 24: 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 fed to cockroaches during an experiment to determine if the lunar rock contained any sort of pathogen that posed a threat to terrestrial life. The material, a NASA lawyer said in a letter to the auctioneer, still belongs to the federal government. The […]
BOSTON (AP) -- 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
The space agency wants to halt the sale of moon dust collected in1969 that was later fed to cockroaches to determine if the lunar rock posed a threat to terrestrial life.