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NASA Wants Its "Moon Cockroaches" BackWho would have thought that some cockroaches and specks of dust could be worth around $400,000? These, however, are not the usual cockroaches that we consider pests or the specks of dust that we wipe up as dirt. We are talking about lunar dust that was actually fed to cockroaches in an experiment to determine whether it contained any diseases that pose a threat to terrestrial life. The moon dust and roaches were auctioned, but now NASA wants them back.  NASA, has requested the Boston-based auction company, RR auction, to return the moon dust. According to NASA anything that was acquired during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission is not for sale. No person or entity is allowed to preserve, display, or sell Apollo samples, emphasizing the urgent need for the RR auction to stop. Image credit: RR Auction#NASA #RRAuction #Apollo11 #Astronomy

Happy Moon Day 2022!Fifty-three years ago today, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and BuzzAldrin landed on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission. The anniversary has come to be known as Moon Day. While the commemorations of the anniversary are not as big as they were on the 50th anniversary, they are all over the internet. Some will teach you something you didn't know, some will make you nostalgic for 1969, and some will blow you away.Gizmodo has 25 Rare and Overlooked Images From the Famed Apollo 11 Mission.Discover magazine has 5 Things You May Not Have Known About Neil Armstrong.Real Clear Science tells us things we wouldn't know about the moon if astronauts didn't go there in person, and other reasons why the "faked moon landing" conspiracy theories are nonsense.

The First-Ever Moon Dust Collected by the Apollo Mission to be AuctionedOn May 25, 1961, President Kennedy delivered a speech to Congress about landing men on the Moon. It was a speech that made thousands of people, scientists, technicians, workers, engineers, and administrators, work together. Over eight years later, on July 20, 1969, what was once a dream became a reality when the Apollo 11 mission landed on the Moon's surface. A few hours after the landing, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin came out of the spacecraft and stepped onto the dusty lunar surface.The Apollo 11 mission, however, not only aimed to bring men to the Moon but also to collect lunar dust for study. The collection of lunar material was assigned to Armstrong, who put about a kilogram of lunar dust on a Teflon bag.Unfortunately, NASA lost this Teflon bag some years later, and it would land in the personal collection of a former curator of the Cosmosphere museum in Kansas. While NASA did prove that the Teflon bag was from the Apollo 11 mission, the agency was ordered to return five of the six scanning electron microscope (SEM) sample stubs that contained the Apollo lunar dust from the bag. This decision made said lunar dust the only verified samples to be legally sold.(Images: Bonham)#NASA #NeilArmstrong #BuzzAldrin #Space #Moon #MoonDust #Apollo11

What Buzz Aldrin Saw on the MoonVisual effects artist Michael Ranger took the iconic photo taken of astronaut Buzz Aldrin by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 mission and 'unwrapped' it to reveal what Aldrin would have seen through his space suit's helmet visor.Ranger (u/rg1213) took the famous photo of Aldrin below and zoomed in on his visor (which is basically like a curved mirror).