Apollo 11 lunar dust from Mag "S" "Sea of Tranquility"
Article No.: 6237
Lunar dust from Tranquility base - right where Armstrong and Aldrin stepped first on the moon!
8x10'' photo presentation with attached 2mm round swatch of tape containing lunar dust from the Apollo 11 landing site near the LM ladder, right from where Armstrong and Aldrin stepped onto the moon july 20th 1969.
The lunar dust originates from the Apollo 11 magazine 'S' Armstrong accidentally dropped on the moon shortly before reentering the lunar module Eagle after his historic first moonwalk.
The history of the original source poster board that was given by the crew to Terry Slezak is as follows :
Terry Slezak, a NASA photographer from JSC who, in the course of his duties became the first man to touch moon dust with his bare hands. One of Mr. Slezak’s jobs for NASA was to take the cameras from the astronauts after their flights, and unload, and clean them. There were no problems with the Apollo 11 film magazines until he came to Magazine ‘S.’ When he opened Magazine ‘S’ he suddenly found his hands covered in moon dust. Unbeknownst to him, the camera had been dropped on the surface of the moon!
Terry Slezak then became the first man to touch lunar dust with bare hands while cleaning Mag S (not knowing at that time it was covered in lunar dust). Because of the fear of lunar microbes, he was put into quarantine along with the astronauts who later presented him a large presentation board with the sample of dust.
Comes with a COA detailing the history of the lunar dust - only one available.
Disclaimer: Lunar dust is legal to own when it comes from officially released artifacts that were covered with lunar dust during the flight. Alan Bean has been using lunar dust in his paintings he samples from some of his lunar surface used hardware!