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missing. Pablo Jáuregui, the Science Editor of El Mundo, a Spanish newspaper, disclosed in a July
20, 2009 story entitled: "Franco's grandson: My mother lost Moon stone given her by
Grandfather..."
[Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_moon_rocks]
NASA claims to have brought back a total of 847 pounds of Moon rocks and lunar soil during the
Apollo missions, the result of 2,415 samples removed from the lunar surface. Very little of this has
ever been accessible to the public. Of the 135 Goodwill Moon Rocks gifted to heads of state from
the Apollo 11 Mission, the location of less than a dozen are known. Of the same number gifted from
Apollo 17, only about 25 are accounted for. According to an article from Space.com, the situation
is far worse than this, however.
NASA Has Lost Hundreds of Its Moon Rocks, New Report Says
By Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer, December 9, 2011
NASA has lost or misplaced more than 500 of the moon rocks its Apollo astronauts collected and
brought back to Earth, according to a new agency report.
In an audit released Thursday (Dec. 8), NASA's Office of Inspector General states that the agency
“lacks sufficient controls over its loans of moon rocks and other astromaterials, which increases the
risk that these unique resources may be lost.”
The report stresses the importance of maintaining stricter guidelines for the release of lunar
materials to researchers, and more meticulous inventory procedures for their storage and return.
“NASA has been experiencing loss of astromaterials since lunar samples were first returned by
Apollo missions,” inspector general Paul K. Martin detailed in the report. “In addition to the Mount
Cuba disk, NASA confirmed that 516 other loaned astromaterials have been lost or stolen between
1970 and June 2010, including 18 lunar samples reported lost by a researcher in 2010 and 218
lunar and meteorite samples stolen from a researcher at [NASA's Johnson Space Center] in 2002,
but since recovered.”
And while the agency reported the 517 missing moon rock samples, even more of these precious
materials may have gone astray, according to the report...
Martin's office audited 59 researchers who had received samples from NASA, and found that 11 of
