NASA admits the US space agency seems to have misplaced some pieces of the moon, meteorites and other space items.
NASA concedes that more than 500 pieces of space material have been stolen or been missing since 1970.
That includes 218 stolen moon samples that were returned and about two dozen moon rocks and chunks of lunar soil that were reported lost last year.
NASA has lent more than 21,500 samples to researchers, who in some cases said they never ended up using the material.
The report says NASA needs to keep better track of what is sent to researchers and museums.
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How could these specimens of such historical and scientific significance for-all-man-kind simply go missing?
Was there a faulty overnight returns-shoot at the NASA video library?
I forgot to return a DVD to video-easy once, (about 20 years ago now) and they have been stalking me ever since.
You would have thought NASA followed this up well before now, they have been missing since the 70's ..almost a half-century.
Perhaps I should join NASA's moon-rock library, I would be happy to pay the late fee if they're happy to let me return them some 40 years later, for by then I could be deceased, and have handed them down to numerous family members and friends who themselves have no desire or legal obligation to return them ...afterall, they were ordinary rocks to their way of thinking-wink-
Meanwhile....
US government officials are currently investigating whether or not it's indeed possible that the rocks they used to weigh-down Bin-ladens 10 years expired corpse which they threw into the sea while no one was looking were in fact NASA's unreturned moon-rocks.
It's possible I guess.
