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Originally Posted by Jimbuna

1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT).

In today's paper:

A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 -- sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle. The bag, filled with moon dust by astronaut Neil Armstrong during the first manned mission to the moon in July 1969, had previously been misidentified and mistakenly sold at an online government auction.

Typical garage sale: one man's crap is another mans gold...er woman's NASA’s attempt to retrieve the bag failed after a federal judge in December ruled it legally belonged to a Chicago-area woman who bought it two years ago for $995.00!http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/07/21/bag-nasa-moon-dust-sells-for-1-8m-at-auction.html This has restored my own faith as a watch collector; http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-101303a.html Buzz Aldrin's Omega Speedmaster is apparently still missing! <Omega's full page ad in yesterday's WSJ of Aldrin on the moon. https://www.montredo.com/en/watch-magazine/the-story-of-buzz-aldrin's-omega-speedmaster/