A bag of moon dust from NASA’s Apollo 11 mission – which a woman bought for $995 in 2015 -- sold for $1.8 million at a Sotheby’s auction this week following an intense court battle.

The lunar bag Neil Armstrong used to bring back the first moon dust samples in 1969 sold at auction for $1.8 million. The bag has had several owners over the past years. Its last sale ignited a ...

"I did see a bag that was described as a lunar bag," she said. "Flown. With a number on it. And it included the word moon dust." She quickly slapped down her $995, and a week later a brown box ...

On the outside, the plain white bag seems unremarkable. But inside, it's laced with an exquisite and extremely valuable material: moon dust. Neil Armstrong stuffed this sack with the world's ...

NEW YORK --A bag containing traces of moon dust sold at auction Thursday for $1.8 million. The sale at Sotheby's on Thursday was surrounded by some fallout from a galactic court battle.

One of the hot-ticket items, a zippered bag laced with moon dust, sold for $1.8 million, the Associated Press reports. The bag’s previous owner is likely thrilled, but NASA certainly isn’t ...

But they couldn’t hold on to one bag of moon dust. The artifact – supposedly collected by astronaut Neil Armstrong – is the property of a Chicago lawyer, and now she plans to auction it off.

In fact, it’s pretty useless. It barely has space to hold your Porsche Taycan’s keys and perhaps some Dior lipstick and a zip bag full of white pixie dust. Because, although Coperni hasn’t ...

This summer, gilded auction agency Sotheby’s will put that “lunar sample return bag” — an Apollo 11 carrying case still encrusted with moon dust and rocks in its fabric — up for bid.