List of Apollo lunar sample displays
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 from 1969 to the 1970s.
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The first human 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 little display cases and gave them out all the U.S. states and the nations of the world, as well some extra political entities like the U.S. territories under administration.[1] This was done again with an Apollo 17 sample.[1]
United States
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Giftee | Apollo 11 | Apollo 17 | Apollo 15 | ||||
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Alabama | Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery[2] | ||||||
Alaska | Alaska State Museum, Juneau | ||||||
American Samoa | Haydon Museum, Pago Pago[3] | ||||||
Arizona | Arizona Historical Society[3] | University of Arizona Mineral Museum, Tucson[2] | |||||
Arkansas | Arkansas Museum of Discovery,[4] Little Rock | ||||||
California | San Diego Air & Space Museum[4] | ||||||
Colorado | Colorado State Capitol | Colorado School of Mines Geology Museum, Golden[2] | |||||
Connecticut | Museum of Connecticut History, Hartford[2][3] | ||||||
Delaware | [3] | Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs[2] | |||||
District of Columbia | National Air and Space Museum, National Cathedral Space Window | ||||||
Florida | Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee[2][3] | ||||||
Georgia | State Capitol Building, Atlanta[3] | Fernbank Science Center, Atlanta[2] | Tellus Science Museum, Cartersville | ||||
Guam | Guam Museum, Hagatna[3] | ||||||
Hawaii | Hawaii State Archives | ||||||
Idaho | Idaho State Historical Society, Boise[2][3] | ||||||
Illinois | Illinois State Museum, Springfield | ||||||
Indiana | Indiana State Museum[2][3] | ||||||
Iowa | State Historical Museum, Des Moines[2][3] | ||||||
Kansas | Kansas Museum of History, Topeka[2][3] | ||||||
Kansas | Cosmosphere, Hutchinson[5] | ||||||
Kentucky | Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort[2][3] | ||||||
Louisiana | Louisiana Art and Science Museum in Baton Rouge | ||||||
Maine | Maine State Museum[2][3] | ||||||
Maryland | Maryland State Archives, Annapolis[2][3] | ||||||
Massachusetts | Museum of Science, Boston[2][3] | ||||||
Michigan | Michigan Historical Museum, Lansing[3] | ||||||
Minnesota | Minnesota Historical Society, Saint Paul[2][3] | ||||||
Mississippi | Department of Archives and History, Jackson[2][3] | ||||||
Missouri | Missouri State Museum[2][3] | ||||||
Montana | Montana Historical Society, Helena[2][3] | ||||||
Nebraska | University of Nebraska State Museum | ||||||
Nevada | Nevada State Museum, Carson City[2] | ||||||
New Hampshire | McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Concord[6] | ||||||
New Jersey | New Jersey State Museum, Trenton | ||||||
New Mexico | Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe | Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell | |||||
New York | New York State Museum, Albany[7] | ||||||
North Carolina | North Carolina Museum of History[8] | North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Raleigh[8][9][10] | Museum of Life and Science, Durham | ||||
North Dakota | State Historical Society, Bismarck[2][3] | ||||||
Northern Marianas Islands | |||||||
Ohio | Ohio Historical Center, Columbus[3] | ||||||
Oklahoma | Oklahoma History Center, Oklahoma City[2][3] | ||||||
Oregon | Oregon State Capitol | Oregon Museum of Science and Industry | |||||
Pennsylvania | The State Museum of Pennsylvania[2][3] | ||||||
Puerto Rico | La Fortaleza, San Juan[3] | ||||||
Rhode Island | |||||||
South Carolina | |||||||
South Dakota | |||||||
Tennessee | |||||||
Texas | |||||||
Utah | Clark Planetarium, Salt Lake City | ||||||
Vermont | Vermont Historical Society, Barre[2][3] | ||||||
Virginia | |||||||
Virgin Islands | |||||||
Washington (State) | Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma[2] | ||||||
West Virginia | State | Morgantown | |||||
Wisconsin | Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison | ||||||
Wyoming | Wyoming State Museum, Cheyenne[2] | ||||||
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
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Giftee | Apollo 11 | Apollo 17 | Apollo 15 | ||||
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Andorra | |||||||
Argentina | Galileo Galilei planetarium, Buenos Aires[3] | ||||||
Australia | National Archives of Australia, Canberra[3] | National Museum of Australia, Canberra[2] | |||||
Austria | Technisches Museum Wien, Vienna[3] | Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna[2] | |||||
Barbados | |||||||
Belgium | Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Brussels | ||||||
Bhutan | |||||||
Bolivia | Planetario Max Schreier, La Paz[2] | ||||||
Botswana | |||||||
Brazil | Unknown[4] | Bagé | |||||
Bulgaria | National Museum of Natural History, Sofia[2] | ||||||
Burma | |||||||
Burundi | |||||||
Cameroon | |||||||
Canada | Unknown[4] | Canada Science and Technology Museum | |||||
Cambodia | National Museum of Cambodia[11] | ||||||
Central African Republic | |||||||
Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | Colombo | ||||||
Chad | |||||||
Chile | Eduardo Frei Montalva's Historic House Museum, Santiago[3] | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santiago[2] | |||||
China | |||||||
Colombia | Planetario Distrital, Bogotá [2][3] | ||||||
Congo (Brazzaville) | |||||||
Congo (Kinshasa) | |||||||
Costa Rica | Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose[2][3] | ||||||
Cuba | |||||||
Cyprus | |||||||
Czechoslovakia | Vojenský historický ústav, Prague[3][12] | ||||||
Dahomey | |||||||
Denmark | Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen[2][3] | ||||||
Dominican Republic | Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Santo Domingo[2][3] | ||||||
Ecuador | |||||||
Egypt | Egyptian Geological Museum, Cairo[13] | ||||||
El Salvador | MUNA, Zona Rosa[2] | ||||||
Equatorial Guinea | |||||||
Ethiopia | |||||||
Finland | Urho Kekkonen Museum Tamminiemi, Helsinki[3] | GTK, Otaniemi[2] | |||||
France | Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Nantes[2] | Palais de la Découverte, Paris[2] | |||||
Gabon | |||||||
Gambia | |||||||
Germany | Naturmuseum Senckenberg, Frankfurt[3] | Deutsches Museum, Munich[2] | Technik Museum, Speyer[14] | ||||
Ghana | |||||||
Greece | |||||||
Guatemala | Ministry of Culture and Sport, Guatemala City[3] | ||||||
Guyana | National Museum of Guyana, Georgetown[2] | ||||||
Haiti | |||||||
Honduras | Unknown[4] | Tegucigalpa | |||||
Hungary | Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum, Budapest[2][3] | ||||||
Iceland | The Exploration Museum, Húsavík | ||||||
India | Parliament Museum, New Delhi[2] | ||||||
Indonesia | |||||||
Iran | |||||||
Iraq | |||||||
Ireland | Dunsink[fn 1] | National Museum of Ireland | |||||
Israel | |||||||
Italy | Museo Nazionale Della Scienza E Della Tecnologia "Leonardo da Vinci", Milan[2] | ||||||
Jamaica | |||||||
Japan | National Museum, Tokyo[2][3] | ||||||
Jordan | |||||||
Kenya | |||||||
Korea | National Museum of Korea, Seoul[3] | National Science Museum, Daejeon[2] | |||||
Kuwait | |||||||
Laos | |||||||
Lebanon | |||||||
Lesotho | |||||||
Liberia | |||||||
Libya | |||||||
Liechtenstein | Schatzkammer Liechtenstein, Vaduz[16] | ||||||
Luxembourg | |||||||
Madagascar | |||||||
Malawi | |||||||
Malaysia | Natural History Museum, Putrajaya[3] | ||||||
Maldives | |||||||
Mali | |||||||
Malta | Gozo Museum | ||||||
Mauritania | |||||||
Mauritius | |||||||
Mexico | Universum, Museo de las Ciencias, Mexico City[2][3] | ||||||
Monaco | |||||||
Mongolia | |||||||
Morocco | |||||||
Muscat and Oman | |||||||
Nauru | |||||||
Nepal | National Museum of Nepal, Kathmandu[2][3] | ||||||
Netherlands (Dutch) | National Museum of the History of Science and Medicine, Leiden[2][3] | ||||||
New Zealand | Museum of New Zealand[2][3] | ||||||
Nicaragua | |||||||
Niger | |||||||
Nigeria | |||||||
Norway | Trondheim Science Museum | Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo | |||||
Pakistan | |||||||
Panama | |||||||
Paraguay | |||||||
Peru | |||||||
Philippines | |||||||
Poland | Olsztyńskie Planetarium i Obserwatorium Astronomiczne, Olsztyn[2][3] | ||||||
Portugal | |||||||
Romania | Muzeul Naţional de Istorie a României, Bucharest[3] | ||||||
Rwanda | Kandt House Museum of Natural History, Kigali[2] | ||||||
San Marino | |||||||
Saudi Arabia | |||||||
Senegal | |||||||
Sierra Leone | |||||||
Singapore | Singapore Science Centre[2][3] | ||||||
Solomon Islands | National Museum[2] | ||||||
Somalia | |||||||
South Africa | Old Parliament Bldg., Cape Town[3] | Transvaal Museum, Pretoria[2] | |||||
Southern Yemen | |||||||
Soviet Union | Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, Moscow[3] | ||||||
Spain | Museo Naval, Madrid[2] | ||||||
Sudan | |||||||
Swaziland | |||||||
Sweden | National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm[2] | ||||||
Switzerland | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich[3] | Swiss Museum of Transport, Lucerne[2] | |||||
Syria | |||||||
Taiwan | National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung[3] | ||||||
Tanzania | |||||||
Thailand | |||||||
Togo | |||||||
Trinidad and Tobago | |||||||
Tunisia | |||||||
Turkey | Natural History Museum, Ankara[2] | ||||||
Uganda | |||||||
United Kingdom | Waiting area, 10 Downing Street, London[17] | Natural History Museum, London[18] | |||||
Upper Volta | |||||||
Uruguay | Boiso Lanza Air Base[2][3] | ||||||
Vatican City | Vatican Museum[3] | Vatican Observatory[2] | |||||
Venezuela | |||||||
Vietnam | |||||||
Yemen | |||||||
Yugoslavia | Museum of Yugoslav History, Belgrad[2][3] | ||||||
Zambia. | |||||||
United Nations |
Footnotes
- Kept at Dunsink Observatory until that was damaged in a 1977 fire, after which it is presumed to have been among the debris dumped in the adjacent landfill site.[15]
See also
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- Apollo 11 goodwill messages (Messages by nations left on the Moon)
References
- Apollo 17 lunar displays
- Apollo 11 lunar displays
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- New Hampshire Apollo 17 Moon Rock
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- "Vojenský Historický Ústav Praha". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- "The Moon". Technik Museum Speyer, Germany. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- "€3.8m treasure hunt under way in Finglas dump". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
- "Schatzkammer Liechtenstein". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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