US govt sold Apollo 11 moon-dust bag for just $995 in 2015; two years later Illinois woman got $1.8 million for the same bag

Economic Times - Sep 17, 2026

Illinois woman got $1.8 million for moon-dust bag: A bag used during NASA’s Apollo 11 Moon mission was sold at a US government auction for $995 in 2015. Illinois attorney Nancy Lee Carlson later discovered that the bag contained lunar material. After a legal dispute with NASA, Carlson retained ownership and sold the historic artifact at Sotheby’s in 2017 for $1.8125 million.

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