Apollo 11 bag used for lunar samples focus of legal dispute

The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew, pictured from left , Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. NASA image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew, pictured from left , Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot. NASA image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) – A bag carried to the moon aboard the Apollo 11 spacecraft and used for the first sample of lunar material is at the center a legal fight after the government mistakenly sold it during the criminal case against the former director of the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.

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