NASA lost alien moon rocks

Risked their lives to put the "Apollo" astronauts 382 kilograms of moon rock on the earth - then there was many a lost sample. A large amount has already been lost. The relaxed attitude is explained mainly by a look at the overall numbers: With 26,000 loan service by the NASA mean 517 lost objects, a loss rate of just two percent. Bearing in mind that NASA has provided more than 150,000 samples of lunar and meteor rocks in their possession, the lost materials are actually something like a speck of dust in space. Moon rock that was collected during the exploration of the moon, is currently considered priceless. In 1993, three small, sold by Luna 16 fragments brought, which weighed 0.2 grams, for $ 442,500. In 2002, a safe from the Lunar Sample Building was stolen, which contained tiny pieces of material from the moon and Mars. These pieces were found and estimated in 2003 by NASA for the trial to a value of $ 1 million for 285 g of material. Moon rock in the form of meteorites is often sold under private collectors and exchanged, but also at high prices.