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- From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)
- Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
- Keywords: U.S. Government funding
- Message-ID: <32982@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 20:45:10 GMT
- References: <1iaeeuINN7kq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU| <1993Jan5.162900.14264@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> <1993Jan5.211231.5031@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1993Jan5.211231.5031@aio.jsc.nasa.gov| tes@gothamcity.uucp (Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]) writes:
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- |I'm just guessing on my figures, but wasn't 500 lbs of moon rock and dust
- |brought back from the moon? And didn't the entire Moon program cost around
- |$67 billion? I think that puts the moon dust/rocks at about $134,000,000 a
- |pound! But as Ken says, it ain't fer sale by Nasa.
- |
- A total of 842 pounds of rock and soil.
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- Bruce Watson (wats@scicom) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131
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