Alaska’s moon rocks recovered
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 21:41
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Five tiny pieces of Tranquility Base are back home in Alaska after having gone missing almost 40 years ago. An arson’s fire in 1973 served as the lead-in to a teenager-turned-reality show skipper’s theft of the moon rocks, which he sued the state of Alaska to have declared legally his own. The key to the state reclaiming its Apollo 11 lunar sample display turned out to be a photo taken in the Atlasta House in 1970…
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