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Tracking Down Missing Moon Rocks

Joe Gutheinz has investigated what happened to the moon rocks brought to earth by NASA.

In the 1960s and 70s, the Apollo moon missions fired the imagination of the world. They brought back rocks from the moon - and as a gesture of goodwill, President Nixon gave one to every nation. But some time later it came to the attention of NASA that this had sparked a trade in fake moon rocks, which were selling for thousands of dollars. NASA sent special agent Joe Gutheinz to investigate. Archive courtesy of Tricky Hale Films.

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