The material from the Apollo 11 mission still belongs to the federal government, a NASA lawyer said in a letter to the auctioneer.
The Apollo 11 lunar module containing Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin begins its descent to the moon's surface as seen through window of the command module by Mike Collins.
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