Finders Keepers

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but then auctioned off. Something's fishy about this.


After the spacecraft returned to Earth, nearly all the equipment was sent to the Smithsonian museums.

However, the bag was left in a box at the Johnson Space Center because of an inventory error.

It was then misidentified during a government auction, selling for just $995 to a lawyer form Illinois in 2015.

Nasa later tried to get the bag back, but earlier this year a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to the buyer, who then offered it for sale at Sotheby's.





Moon dust bag sold for $1.8m at New York auction - BBC News
 
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