The sale was halted after the space agency claimed it owned everything associated with a 1969 experiment that explored whether lunar soil was dangerous to terrestrial life. By Vimal Patel Unanswered ...

This April 2022 handout photograph provided by RR Auction shows moon dust from the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, which was pulled from an auction listing after NASA said the dust, and some cockroaches that ...

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Remarkable Rarities auctioned off cockroaches and moon dust collected during an Apollo 11 mission in 1969, per The AP. The auctioned materials were used in an experiment to determine if lunar rocks ...

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 ...

Lunar dust is hard—and expensive—to come by. So difficult, in fact, that an auction house is offering up lunar dust extracted from the stomachs of dead cockroaches. Yep, now you can get your moon dust ...

BOSTON - 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 ...

The lunar dust was fed to cockroaches in an experiment to see if it contained any pathogens that presented a hazard to terrestrial life. Now, the space agency has urged Boston-based RR Auction to stop ...