Moon rocks sell for $855,000 in New York: Sotheby's

The rocks, collected by Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970, went for nearly double the $442,500 last paid for them by present-day US sellers in a Sotheby's Russian space history sale in 1993. They were originally the property of Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of former director of Soviet space program, who was given them in honor of her husband's work.

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The rocks, collected by Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970, went for nearly double the $442,500 last paid for them by present-day US sellers in a Sotheby's Russian space history sale in 1993. They were originally the property of Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of former director of Soviet space program, who was given them in honor of her husband's work.