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Recovering lost, stolen artifacts from NASA moon missions
Astronauts who went to the Moon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 collected numerous samples of rocks and dust. Some were gifts or goodwill gestures but many have been...
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Astronauts who went to the Moon for Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 collected numerous samples of rocks and dust. Some of them went to states as gifts, or to other countries as goodwill gestures. Over the decades many of those pieces have been lost or stolen, often sold on the black market. Joseph Gutheinz is working to recover all the pieces and return them to NASA. Federal News Network’s Eric White reported for Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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