Moon Dust is recovered.... Americans can sigh with relief

24 June 2011 Last updated at 11:35 ET
Stolen Apollo 11 moon dust recovered

 

The dust was brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts in July 1969

The US has recovered a scattering of moon dust stolen from Nasa after the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, just as it was about to be sold at auction.

The dust was smuggled out of NASA by a staff photographer who gathered it from a camera the astronauts used on the lunar surface, officials said.

NASA investigators discovered the dust - affixed to a scrap of tape - at a St Louis auction house this month.

It is illegal in the US to possess moon rocks or moon dust.

"It wasn't much to look at, but I will never be that close to the moon again," US attorney for eastern Missouri Richard Callahan said in a statement.

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Forget the fact that moon dust returns to the possession of a group of elitists... a oligarchy.   Instead, focus on whether it is a big deal that someone took some moon dust they had found inside a camera.  The dust would have been thrown away if the "civilian" had not collected it.  Perhaps the IOA just missed a plague from the moon !!!!  ... f so, we have been saved by government experts once again.  And the USG has provided employment of redundant humans.

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