List of Apollo lunar sample displays explained

This is a list of lunar sample displays from the Apollo program that were distributed through the United States and around the world. They include samples from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions conducted by NASA in 1969 and 1972.

The Apollo 11 mission to the surface of the Moon returned a few dozen pounds/kilos of lunar material (mainly rock and dust), and the US put about 0.05 grams in small display cases and gave one apiece to the 50 U.S. states, to the nations of the world, and to political entities like the U.S. territories under administration.[1] This was done again with an Apollo 17 sample (Lunar basalt 70017).[1] There are a few samples from Apollo 15 on display.

United States

Listing
Giftee Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Apollo 15
Alabama Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
Alaska Alaska State Museum, Juneau
American Samoa Jean P. Haydon Museum, Pago Pago[2] -
Arizona Arizona Historical Society, Tucson University of Arizona Mineral Museum, Tucson
Arkansas Arkansas Museum of Discovery, Little Rock[3]
San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego
Colorado State CapitolColorado School of Mines Geology Museum, Golden
Connecticut Museum of Connecticut History, Hartford
Delaware Unknown - stolen in 1977 Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs
District of Columbia District of Columbia Office of Public Records-
Florida Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee
Georgia Georgia State Capitol, Atlanta Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville[4]
Guam Guam Museum, Hagatna -
Hawaii State Archives[5]
Idaho Idaho State Historical Society, Boise
Illinois State Museum, Springfield
Indiana Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis
Iowa State Historical Museum, Des Moines
Kansas Kansas Museum of History, TopekaKenneth Spencer Research Library, Lawrence
Kentucky Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort
LouisianaLouisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge[6] Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans[7]
Maine Maine State Museum, Augusta
Maryland Maryland State Archives, Annapolis
Massachusetts Museum of Science, Boston
Michigan Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing Unknown - missing since 1972[8] Calvin University, Grand Rapids[9]
Minnesota Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson
Missouri State Museum, Jefferson City
Montana Montana Historical Society, Helena
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln
Nevada Nevada State Museum, Carson City
New Hampshire McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord[10]
New Jersey State Museum, TrentonUnknown - missing since 1976[11] [12]
Palace of Governors, Santa FeRoswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell
UnknownNew York State Museum, Albany[13]
North Carolina Museum of History, Raleigh North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh[14] [15] [16]
North Dakota State Historical Society, Bismarck
Ohio Ohio History Center, Columbus
Oklahoma Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City
Oregon State Capitol, SalemOregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland
Pennsylvania State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg
Puerto Rico La Fortaleza, San Juan -
Rhode IslandState Library, ProvidenceState Archives, Providence
South CarolinaSouth Carolina State Museum, Columbia
South DakotaSouth Dakota State Historical Society, PierreW.H. Over Museum, Vermillion
TennesseeTennessee State Museum, NashvillePink Palace Museum, Memphis
TexasMuseum of Texas Tech University, LubbockTexas State History Museum, Austin
Utah Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake CityNatural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City
Vermont Vermont Historical Society, Barre
VirginiaLibrary of Virginia, RichmondScience Museum of Virginia, Richmond
WashingtonWashington State Historical Society, Tacoma
West VirginiaWest Virginia State Museum, Charleston
Wisconsin Wisconsin Historical Museum, Madison
Wyoming Wyoming State Capitol, CheyenneWyoming State Museum, Cheyenne

International

The display cases included a lunar sample and small flag of the respective political entity that had been to the Moon and back. Approximately 135 displays were gifted to nations of the world at that time, so nations created since then are not included and some displays have been inherited from past nations

Listing
Giftee Apollo 11 Apollo 17 Apollo 15
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Argentina Galileo Galilei planetarium, Buenos Aires
Australia National Archives of Australia, Canberra National Museum of Australia, Canberra[17]
Austria Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna
Bangladesh Bangabandhu Military Museum[18]
Barbados
Belgium Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels
Bhutan
Bolivia Planetario Max Schreier, La Paz
Botswana
Unknown Bagé
Bulgaria National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
BurmaNational Museum of Myanmar (Yangon)
Burundi
Cameroon
Unknown Canada Science and Technology Museum
Cambodia National Museum of Cambodia[19]
Central African Republic
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) Colombo
Chad
Chile Eduardo Frei Montalva's Historic House Museum, Santiago Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago
China Unknown Beijing Planetarium, Beijing
Bogotá Planetarium, Bogotá
Congo (Brazzaville)
Congo (Kinshasa)
Costa Rica Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose
Cuba
Cyprus
Czechoslovakia Vojenský historický ústav, Prague[20]
Dahomey
Denmark Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen
Dominican Republic Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo
Ecuador
Egypt Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo[21]
El Salvador MUNA, Zona Rosa
Equatorial Guinea
Ethiopia
Finland Urho Kekkonen Museum Tamminiemi, Helsinki GTK, Otaniemi
France Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Nantes Palais de la Découverte, Paris
Gabon
Gambia
Germany Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt Deutsches Museum, Munich Technik Museum, Speyer[22]
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala Ministry of Culture and Sport, Guatemala City
Guyana National Museum of Guyana, Georgetown
Haiti
Unknown Tegucigalpa
Hungary Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest
Iceland The Exploration Museum, Húsavík
India Parliament Museum, New Delhi
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
National Museum of Ireland
Israel Israel State Archives, Jerusalem[23] [24] Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv (presumed)
Italy Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan
Jamaica
Japan National Museum, Tokyo
Jordan
Kenya
Korea National Museum of Korea, Seoul National Science Museum, Daejeon
Kuwait
Laos Royal Palace Museum, Luang Prabang
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein Schatzkammer Liechtenstein, Vaduz[25]
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia Natural History Museum, Putrajaya
Maldives National Museum, Male
Mali
Gozo Museum
Mauritania
Mauritius National History Museum, Mahebourg
Mexico Universum, Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Muscat and Oman
Nauru
Nepal National Museum of Nepal, Kathmandu
National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, Leiden
New Zealand Museum of New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Trondheim Science Museum Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo
Pakistan
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland Olsztyńskie Planetarium i Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, Olsztyn
Portugal
Romania Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României, Bucharest
Rwanda Kandt House Museum of Natural History, Kigali
San Marino
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Sierra Leone Sierra Leone National Museum, Freetown[26] [27]
Singapore Singapore Science Centre
Solomon Islands National Museum
Somalia
South Africa Old Parliament Bldg., Cape Town Transvaal Museum, Pretoria
Southern Yemen
Soviet Union Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow
Museo Naval, Madrid
Sudan
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne
Syria
Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey Natural History Museum, Ankara
Uganda
United Kingdom Waiting area, 10 Downing Street, London[28] Natural History Museum, London[29]
Upper Volta
Uruguay Boiso Lanza Air Base
Vatican City Vatican Museum Vatican Observatory
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Yugoslavia Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrad
Zambia.
United Nations

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Search for States' Missing Apollo 11 Moon Rocks Continues .
  2. http://www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_apollo11.html Apollo 11 lunar displays
  3. Web site: Pearlman . Robert . Robert Pearlman . 1999–2012 . Where today are the Apollo 11 goodwill lunar sample displays? . November 2, 2012 . collectspace.com.
  4. https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/museum-exhibiting-moon-rock-collected-apollo/S5sQk9OfZCFUkHW8i9eiRM/ Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  5. Web site: 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 and Man's First Landing on the Moon . 2022-03-01 . ags.hawaii.gov . en.
  6. Web site: The case of Louisiana's missing moon rocks partially solved; hunt for second 'Goodwill' moon rock continues. 4 August 2018 .
  7. Web site: Louisiana's missing moon rock found by Florida man recycling wooden plaques into gun stock. 28 September 2021 .
  8. Web site: 2017-08-09 . That time NASA gave Michigan a piece of the moon and it wound up in a garage . 2022-03-01 . Michigan Radio . en.
  9. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KE5EHA7Ku4
  10. https://www.flickr.com/photos/timothytaber/7996777781/ New Hampshire Apollo 17 Moon Rock
  11. Web site: Beckerman . Jim . The Strange Afterlife of the Apollo 11 Moon Rocks . 2022-03-01 . North Jersey Media Group . en-US.
  12. Web site: Young . Elise . 2011-01-29 . Investigators scour N.J. in search of missing Apollo 17 moon rocks . 2022-03-01 . nj . en.
  13. The dark side of the moon rock . Sean . Ahern . December 3, 2009 . spotlightnews.com . November 3, 2012 . https://archive.today/20130203031910/http://www.spotlightnews.com/news/2009/dec/03/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-rock/?page=1& . February 3, 2013 . dead .
  14. News: State's elusive moon rock soon to become a big star . July 28, 2010 . Jay . Price . . . Raleigh, North Carolina . November 3, 2012 . July 30, 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100730113412/https://www.newsobserver.com/2010/07/28/600845/states-elusive-moon-rock-soon.html#ixzz0uzxz3vEf . dead .
  15. News: North Carolina's moon rock to shine again in state museum . Jay . Price . . McClatchey. Raleigh, North Carolina . July 28, 2010 . November 3, 2012.
  16. (article) . . March 2011 . 49.
  17. http://www.collectspace.com/resources/moonrocks_goodwill.html Apollo 17 lunar displays
  18. https://bangabandhumilitarymuseum.com/history Bangabandhu Military Museum
  19. Web site: Apollo moon rock rediscovered in Cambodia debuts on display. 20 June 2018 . Collect Space . 8 December 2018 .
  20. Web site: Vojenský Historický Ústav Praha. 21 November 2017.
  21. Web site: Where Today are the Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rocks? | collectSPACE.
  22. Web site: The Moon . Technik Museum Speyer, Germany . 20 November 2015.
  23. Web site: Moon rocks and Israeli flag which visited the Moon, inside wooden casing . Israel State Archives. 13 October 2021.
  24. News: צפו: אבנים מהירח ודגל ישראל שהיה במשימת אפולו 11 (Watch: Moon rocks and Israeli flag carried on Apollo 11). Nina. Fuchs. 30 June 2019 . Ynet . 13 October 2021.
  25. Web site: Schatzkammer Liechtenstein . 21 November 2017.
  26. Web site: Basu . Paul . Moon Dust Accession Number: SLNM.1970.11.01 . Sierra Leone Heritage.org . 20 September 2024.
  27. Web site: Basu . Paul . Moon Dust Accession Number: SLNM.1974.01.12 . Sierra Leone Heritage.org . 20 September 2024.
  28. News: Cornock . David . 30 December 2015. Wales plea over Apollo 11 moon dust gift . BBC News . 24 April 2019 .
  29. Web site: Moon rock . Natural History Museum . 11 May 2015.

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