The NASA inspector general's office is investigating plans by anauction house to sell a relic of the first expedition to land on themoon.
A silvery grab handle attached to the outside of the Apollo 11command module could be sold for $20,000 to $30,000, say sellers atButterfields auction house in San Francisco, which is owned by theonline auction site eBay
Normally, an object from a historic expedition would have ended upon display at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in Washington. Themuseum houses the Apollo 11 command module, which, in 1969, carriedastronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins to lunarorbit; then Armstrong and Aldrin descended in the …
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