A missing moon rock in Louisiana has been found in an old box inside a house, and no one knows how it got there.
Sometimes we store really strange things in places like storage rooms or garages, but maybe what a man in Florida could never imagine is that he found a moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission in an old box from his house and which he has finally donated to the state museum.
And it is that a lost moon rock and originally given to the state of Louisiana by former President Richard Nixon has been returned to the state after a man found it in a box at his home.
The man pointed to the site collectspace that he must have previously bought the stone at a garage sale in the last 15 years, but never realized its value.
“I can’t even tell you how long I had it. I’m also not sure how much I paid for it”, Says the man to the aforementioned media.
While the vast majority of the lunar samples brought in during the first Apollo missions remain safeguarded by NASA itself, most of the nearly 200 samples that Nixon gave to the 50 states of the United States have disappeared over time.
Some of these missing moon rocks have been stolen, but there is another great majority that have been directly lost. Now luckily this man from Florida personally delivered the sample to the Louisiana State Museum so that everyone can appreciate it and it is preserved in the best possible way.
Furthermore, the Louisiana State Museum has stated that “have no plans to initiate an investigation”About the bizarre journey of the rock from when it was guarded by the state until it reached a garage sale.