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Article #6991Re: Moon Dust For Sale
From: Justin Sullivan
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:47
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 23:47
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banshee@cats.ucsc.edu (Wailer at the Gates of Dawn) writes: > I think this is a GREAT idea and that NASA should market MORE space items >to help finance its budget. Whats the approx cost per pound of moon rocks >anyhow? Well, if NASA lived up to more of its promises, moon rocks would be $1 a pound by now. :) Sorry.. Some taxpayers get upset when the most advanced nation in existence ruins very expensive orbiting instruments and loses space shuttles and their expensive/irreplaceable cargo(s) .. These things aren't supposed to happen! <grrr.. flame off> Go figure.. A two-inch piece of tape with moondust is expected to sell for ~$100K, so a pound might go for $2 million or so (at that rate).
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Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,alt.sci.planetary Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ukma!news From: justin@hp750.ccs.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan) Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale Nntp-Posting-Host: hp750.ccs.uky.edu Message-ID: <justin.726191271@hp750> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:47:51 GMT Lines: 15