Moon dust bags are sold for $ 1.8 million

Moon dust bag collected by American astronaut Neil Armstrong was sold at auction in New York on July 20.

Moon dust bags are sold at auction.(Photo: Sotherby).

The white bag containing Armstrong's Moonstone specimen collected from the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was bought by an unspecified person for $ 1.8 million at Sotheby's auction on July 20 in New. York, USA, according to BBC.

The auction was held on the 48th anniversary of the Apollo landing on the Moon. Specimens collected by astronauts in this mission are collected and stored at the Smithsonian Museum. However, due to NASA's negligence, the bag was left in a box at Johnson Space Center, then sold to a lawyer in Chicago for $ 995.

NASA tried to get the bag back but earlier this year, a federal judge announced it belonged to a legal buyer and had sold the Sotheby auction floor.

1. USD 4 million for a bag containing moon land