One of the few photographs of Neil Armstrong on the moon shows him working on his space craft on the lunar surface. LOS ANGELES - Have you ever wanted to own a piece of the moon?
Well, now you can. Moon dust samples collected by none other than Neil Armstrong himself during the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 are currently up for auction.
The auction item up for bid at Bonhams in New York City includes five samples of lunar dust worth up to $1.2 million, according to the auction house. "I think one of the keys for this is that it’s from the contingency sample.
So it’s the very first dust [collected] and it’s collected by Neil Armstrong who’s like, you know, he’s the guy," Adam Stackhouse, Bonhams’s senior specialist in science and technology told Atlas Obscura.The potential owner of this historic artifact will receive a blue plastic container containing five aluminum disks each carrying a small piece of carbon tape used to retrieve the lunar samples.