Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
The Apollo 11 contingency sample, which included 492 grams of material finer than 0.4 inches , as well as 12 rock fragments larger than 0.4 inches, remains in NASA's control, as does the majority of the 842 pounds of lunar rocks, core samples, pebbles, sand and dust that were brought back to Earth by the sixLegal sales of human-recovered lunar material are rare.
of loose moon dust in private hands, three tiny pebbles brought back by the former Soviet Union's Luna 16 robotic probe in 1970. The grains, which weighed a total of about 0.2 grams , sold for $855,000., the"Chief Designer" of the Soviet space program, was sold by Sotheby's in 1993 for $442,500. With inflation, the 2018 sale reflected an increase of about $87,500.
Other Apollo moon dust-stained equipment and tape-lifted lunar samples have been sold, but without the certification provided by NASA, making the Bonhams' samples unique. Bonhams' Space History Sale included 22 lots in total, including artifacts from the launch of the world's first satellite Sputnik, astronaut autographs and photographs.
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