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Now up for bid: Cockroach carcasses and the Apollo 11 moon dust extracted from their stomachs, the result of a 1969 NASA biological test in search of dangerous "moon bugs."

Cockroach-eaten Apollo 11 moon dust goes up for auction

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

For sale: One small sample of the moon brought back to Earth in 1969 by the Apollo 11 astronauts. Condition: Well-traveled and once digested.

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A frozen moon rock from Apollo 17 while it's being processed at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

NASA scientists start studying 50-year-old frozen Apollo 17 moon samples

By Chelsea Gohd published

NASA scientists have begun to study 50-year-old samples of the moon's surface, collected during the agency's final moon landing mission, Apollo 17.

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NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins talks to family and friends as she and her Crew-4 crewmates head to Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida ahead for their launch to the International Space Station on April 27, 2022.

Apollo 17 moonwalker hails launch of fellow geologist-astronaut Jessica Watkins

By Tereza Pultarova published

The last man to have set foot on the moon watched today as Crew-4 blasted off to the International Space Station atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

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Apollo 16 lunar module pilot stands at the rim of Plum crater with the lunar rover parked in the distance on April 21, 1972.

Apollo 16: Celebrating 50 years since the penultimate moon landing

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Charlie Duke thought he was on his way to exploring an area of the moon that was different from where astronauts had gone before. He just did not know how different it really was.

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Five scanning electron microscope aluminum sample stubs, four of which are said to be topped by particles from the first lunar sample that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong gathered shortly after he became the first person to walk on the moon in 1969, sold at auction for about $500,000 on Wednesday, April 13, 2022.

Microscopic Apollo 11 moon dust sells for $500K at Bonhams auction

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

A minuscule amount of microscopic moon dust sold for half a million dollars after NASA determined that the particles came from the first lunar sample collected by Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong.

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Spectators look on as the Apollo 16 space vehicle, standing 363-feel tall, consisting of Spacecraft 113, Lunar Module 11 and Saturn 511 moves out of the Vehicle Assembly Building

Apollo 16: NASA's 5th crewed moon landing in pictures

By Christine Lunsford last updated

On April 16, 1972 NASA launched the Apollo 16 moon landing mission, which sent three astronauts to the moon's Descartes region. See photos from the historic flight in our gallery here.

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(From the left) On March 17, 2022, Apollo astronaut Gen. Thomas Stafford, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA astronaut G. Reid Wiseman, the current head of NASA's astronaut office and NASA astronaut Drew Feustel (right).

Apollo-Soyuz astronaut reflects on changing U.S.-Russia relations in space

By Chelsea Gohd published

Almost 50 years ago, in the midst of the Cold War, American astronauts flew to space alongside cosmonauts as part of NASA's first attempt to forge a partnership between the U.S. and Russia in space.

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Scanning electron microscope aluminum sample stubs topped with black carbon tape containing moon dust from the Apollo 11 mission. The minuscule moon dust is part of Bonhams' next Space History Sale, April 13, 2022 in New York City.

Microscopic moon dust from first Apollo 11 lunar sample head to auction

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

Microscopic pieces of the moon that were found inside a bag used to protect the first astronaut-collected lunar soil sample are heading for auction after being released from NASA property.

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The Apollo 17 core sample 73001 processing team in front of the newly opened sample at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left, Charis Krysher, Andrea Mosie, Juliane Gross and Ryan Zeigler.

NASA finally opened 50-year-old Apollo moon rock sample as agency eyes human return to lunar surface

By Elizabeth Howell published

In a long-awaited moment, NASA scientists have unsealed an extraterrestrial time capsule 50 years after astronauts collected the rock and dust from the moon.

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Janet Petro, director of NASA's Kennedy Space Center, speaks during a Feb. 22, 2022 ceremony renaming the Florida spaceport's launch control center for Apollo launch director Rocco Petrone.

NASA control center named for Apollo launch director Rocco Petrone

By Robert Z. Pearlman published

The NASA control center that oversaw the launch of the first astronauts to walk on the moon now bears the name of one of its pioneering directors. Agency officials honored the late Rocco Petrone.

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