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The U.S. government accidentally sold an Apollo 11 bag still carrying traces of moon dust for just $995 in 2015 — the Illinois woman who bought it survived a legal fight with NASA, then sold the same bag at Sotheby’s two years later for $1.8 million

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A bureaucratic blunder turned a $995 impulse buy into an $1.8 million windfall—if you can survive a government lawsuit claiming the moon dust was never yours to sell. The post The U.S. government accidentally sold an Apollo 11 bag still car…

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    The U.S. government accidentally sold an Apollo 11 bag still carrying traces of moon dust for just $995 in 2015 — the Illinois woman who bought it survived a legal fight with NASA, then sold the same bag at Sotheby’s two years later for $1.8 million