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 --------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "ken newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "stan ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> To: [email protected] > >> 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 > >> > >> > >> ===== > >> M come Meteorite - Matteo Chinellato > >> Via Triestina 126/A - 30030 - TESSERA, VENEZIA, ITALY > >> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Sale Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.it > >> Collection Site: http://www.mcomemeteorite.info > >> International Meteorite Collectors Association #2140 > >> MSN Messanger: spacerocks at hotmail.com > >> EBAY.COM:http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/mcomemeteorite/ > >> > >> > >> > >> ___________________________________ > >> Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, > >> Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! > >> http://it.messenger.yahoo.it > >> ______________________________________________ > >> Meteorite-list mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > Meteorite-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
