The bag: that brought the first lunar dust goes to auction.

moon dust usually spending almost a grand on a bag of dust is what we call a poor financial decision but not in this case in 2003 investigators seized this particular bag when searching the garage of a man who was later convicted of dealing in stolen museum artifacts what looked like an ordinary bag filled with moon dust from NASA's Apollo 11 mission Neil Armstrong himself filled it during the first manned mission to the moon in July 1969 and the government officials dealing with the bag didn't realize that it was the real deal they sold it at an auction for nine hundred ninety five dollars to a woman named Nancy Carlson she sent the bag to NASA for testing but after realizing what they had they tried to keep the bag however a judge enforced that no backsies rule and the bag was returned to Carlson after the verdict Carlson put the bag up for auction once again where it sold for  1.8 million dollars or a profit of 1 million 799 $5 not too