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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Menelaos Hadjicostis

Rare Apollo mission moon rock back in Cyprus after 50 years

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Half a century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon’s surface, a minute piece of extraterrestrial rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus.

The 1.1 gram piece of moon rock was on display Thursday at an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned lunar missions, and the Artemis spacecraft that’s now orbiting the moon.

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