NEW YORK –
A bag with traces of lunar dust has Thursday at an auction at Sotheby’s in New York, 1.5 million raise, less than the 1.7 to 3.4 million euros of which advance was predicted. Neil Armstrong used the bag of 30 by 21 inches after the first manned landing on the moon in 1969, collecting dust, for further research on earth.
A woman from Chicago provided the dust bag for sale. They had that in 2015 for less than $ 1000 at an auction of overheidsspullen bought him, and had it check authenticity by NASA. The space agency recognized the bag and tried in vain to get back, because “to the American people belonged”.
According to NASA, he was accidentally at the discarded stuff, but a judge ruled in december that the woman was the object lawfully had obtained. Who the buyer is of the dust bag, is not published.