Recently released documents reveal how Ireland struggled to find homes for two moon rock displays gifted by the U.S.
Ireland lost a priceless piece of moon rock from the first moon landing in August 1969. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz ...
Documents released from Ireland's National Archive have revealed that a priceless piece of Apollo mission moon rock donated ...
The NASA moon rock the US gifted Ireland from the Apollo 11 mission was burned in a fire, according to Ireland's National ...
An audit by NASA in 2011 found that at least 517 of their “astromaterial samples” were lost or stolen between 1970 and June ...
A priceless piece of lunar rock given to Ireland following a Nasa mission was lost in a fire at Dunsink Observatory, newly ...
Historic lunar rock brought back by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 lay hidden after bureaucrats dithered over where to display it ...
"This piece of moon rock had lain in the basement of this department for three-and-a-half years due to indecision as to where it might best be displayed." Originally presented to Ireland's then ...