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Stephen White

First moon dust sample collected by Neil Armstrong on sale for almost £1million

The first sample of moon dust ever collected is up for sale for almost £1million, more than 1,400 times what was initially paid for it.

Scooped up by Neil Armstrong during the historic 1969 moon landing, he placed it in a decontamination bag and it was carried back to Earth and handed over to NASA.

The bag – which had been thought to have been empty – was subsequently lost and turned up at a space museum in Kansas.

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