Re: Moon Dust For Sale

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From: Thomas E. Smith [LORAL]
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 21:12

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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.

                                                       Tom Smith

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From: tes@gothamcity.uucp (Thomas E. Smith [LORAL])
Subject: Re: Moon Dust For Sale
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Keywords: U.S. Government funding
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