How or when the Apollo 17 rock went missing is not clear. It is encased in an acrylic ball that is attached to a wooden plaque with a miniature replica of the state flag and inscriptions.

How or when the Apollo 17 rock went missing is not clear. It is encased in an acrylic ball that is attached to a wooden plaque with a miniature replica of the state flag and inscriptions.

The man quickly realized there was a precious stone inside the plastic orb—not a gem, but a piece of moon rock brought back on the Apollo 17 mission in 1972. The plaque and lunar nugget had been ...

The moon rock was part of a piece collected during the Apollo 17 mission It is among the many ... "I'm not even sure how much I paid for it. I buy plaques because I take the wood from the plaques ...

A Florida man whose hobbies include purchasing old plaques so he could recycle their wood to create gun stocks inadvertently discovered one that was out of this world. It included an Apollo 17 ...

In 1972, Nixon presented another round of plaques, each with a fragment collected by the crew of Apollo 17. NASA considered each sample the property of the people of the nations and states to ...

The Canadian Museum of Nature recently put its Apollo 17 rock out for display ... and there's a wooden plaque with a Canadian flag that actually went up to the moon," Erika Anderson told Space.com ...

But it was Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 mission, who took the final steps on the Moon before their departure 50 years ago today on December 16, 1972. He left behind a plaque that ...

Advertising How or when the Apollo 17 rock went missing is not clear. It is encased in an acrylic ball that is attached to a wooden plaque with a miniature replica of the state flag and inscriptions.

How or when the Apollo 17 rock went missing is not clear. It is encased in an acrylic ball that is attached to a wooden plaque with a miniature replica of the state flag and inscriptions.