Samples collected from the Moon on the Apollo 11 mission are up for auction
1Samples collected from the Moon on the Apollo 11 mission are up for auction
Dust collected from Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the Moon, is up for auction. The auction house claimed that the microscope parts from which the samples were examined would be sold, and that they had been collected by Neil Armstrong himself. The samples, which are in court, are expected to sell for at least 800,000 dollars.
Two astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who served in the American Space and Aviation Administration, set foot on the Moon on July 20, 1969, a first in human history.
NASA astronauts spent 21 hours 36 minutes minutes on the surface of the Moon. During this time, astronauts collected many specimens besides hanging an American flag on the Moon.
Some of these specimens, collected more than 50 years ago, are up for auction.
The UK-based Bonhams auction house has announced that many microscopic specimens will be auctioned off.
It was stated that four of the samples were personally collected by Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to set foot on the Moon.
These samples, taken from Tranquility Base, where the NASA vehicle landed, are expected to be sold for $800,000 to $1.2 million.
These examples, which are in the title of electron microscopes, have been the subject of discussion.
Nancy Lee Carlson, owner of the aluminum sample heads, previously sold the bag containing the samples collected from the Moon for $ 1.8 million.
NASA sued Carlson for the microscope parts, but the court ruled that the parts belonged to Carlson.