A bag containing possible traces of moon dust is heading to auction – surrounded by some fallout from a court battle.
The collection bag, used by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the supposed first manned mission to the moon in 1969, will be featured Thursday at a Sotheby's auction in New York City of items related to space voyages. The pre-sale estimate is $2 million to $4 million.
The artifact from the Apollo 11 mission was misidentified and sold at an online government auction. NASA fought to get it back.
In December, a federal judge ruled that it legally belonged to a Chicago-area woman who bought it in 2015 for $995. I'm Not sure if she also Bought the Brooklyn Bridge.
Sotheby's declined to identify the seller. However, details of the 2015 purchase were made public during the court case
Investigators unknowingly hit the moon mother lode in 2003 while searching the garage of a man later convicted of stealing and selling museum artifacts, including some that were on loan from NASA.
The 12-by-8½-inch bag was misidentified and sold at an online government auction.
Nancy Carlson, of Inverness, Illinois, got an ordinary-looking bag made of white Beta cloth and polyester with rubberized nylon and a brass zipper.
Carlson, a collector, thought the bag had been used in a space flight, but she didn't know for sure. She sent it to NASA for testing, and the government agency, fought to keep it.
The artifact "belongs to the American people," NASA said then.
Apparently in their minds She is not one of the American People.
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten in Wichita, Kansas said that while it shouldn't have gone up for auction, he didn't have the authority to reverse the sale. He ordered the government to return it.
My opinion... If NASA wants it so Bad. whether it is real or if it's in order to cover up the Fake moon Landing,
and
Neil Armstrong's lies. or if the dust in/on it is from it sitting around for a long time,
or from real samples. I'm sure they can afford to out Bid anyone
except maybe an Oil Baron, or gas station owner.
[In 2008, NASA signed contracts with SpaceX and its rival aerospace company Orbital Sciences, to the tune of $1.6 billion for 12 launches and $1.9 billion for eight rocket launches, respectively.
While these new missions cost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars less than a space shuttle launch, the price of sending cargo into space didn't go down.]
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go out in personal Debt, still owing the irs
