[meteorite-list] Apollo 16 Moon dust on ebay...mmmmmmmmm

From: Walter Branch <branchw_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue Feb 22 21:13:00 2005
Message-ID: <001801c5194c$9b279a80$6101a8c0_at_launchmodem.com>

Hi Ken and List,

While certain Heads of State were given some
moon rocks during the 1970s I know of no NASA
employees who were given dust or actual rocks
in appreciation for their work. Perhaps Greg Redfern
knows more about this.

Having said that, SOME dust removed from the
collection bags and equipment of moonwalkers
has been collected and made it to the memorabillia market.

What happended was, tape was pressed onto the bags
and/or rquipment and the dust particles were lifted and
pressed onto paper. This was typically done by personnel
at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) soon after the
astronauts returned. A famous incident occured when a
NASA technician named Terry Slezak
opened the magazine of the camera that Neil Armstrong used
on the lunar surface and accidently exposed himself to a
quantity of lunar dust (the camera was accidently dropped onto
the surface by Armstrong). He was actually placed into quarantine
with the Apollo 11 astronauts.

Anyway, these pieces of moon dust injected tape were cut into small
swatches made into "presentation pieces." A German space
memorabillie dealer named Florian Noller has
produced a number of the pieces:

http://spaceflori.com/testimonials.php

all of which are entirely legitimate and legal to own.

-Walter




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----- Original Message -----
From: "ken newton" <magellon_at_earthlink.net>
To: "stan ." <laser_maniac_at_hotmail.com>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Apollo 16 Moon dust on ebay...mmmmmmmmm


> I would not quickly discount the story. I have heard that each member of
> NASA's Prime Recovery Team was given a small vile with a lunar dust and
> fragments cleaned from space suits and boots. Last year I asked NASA to
> confirm this but I am not aware of any response. As far as the fragments
> up for auction, perhaps they are from the 'blue moon' that occasionally
> appears ;>)
> best,
> ken
>
>
> stan . wrote:
>
> > i wounder why a guy with nealry 6000 + feedback and only 1 negitive
> > would be selling something like that on ebay...
> >
> >
> >> From: M come Meteorite Meteorites <mcomemeteorite2004_at_yahoo.it>
> >> To: meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com
> >> Subject: [meteorite-list] Apollo 16 Moon dust on ebay...mmmmmmmmm
> >> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 19:23:48 +0100 (CET)
> >>
> >> Hello
> >>
> >>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=416&item=3959307456&rd=1
> >>
> >>
> >> for me its a fake
> >>
> >> Matteo
> >>
> >>
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