British media: NASA prevents the auction of Yueyang and the dead cockroaches of the edible monthly sun

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] According to the British Times reported on the 27th, the US Aerospace Administration (NASA) recently prevented a auction event. The lots include the soil and edible soil brought back from the moon in Apollo 11 in 1969 Apollo 11.For three cockroaches, the auction company has estimated that these items can shoot a high price of $ 400,000.

The auction of the auction came from the late insect scholar Marion Brooks.NASA feeds cockroaches for some lunar soil samples brought back by Apollo 11 to detect whether there is a pathogen that threatens the earth's creatures.This study was completed by Brooks. After the experiment, the moon soil and cockroaches did not return to NASA, but stayed in her house. The family had auctioned it to California auction house in 2010. This timeTo NASA's prevention.The agency stated in a lawyer's letter: "NASA has the ownership of the Apollo 11 project sample. Even after analysis, destruction or other uses, no one, university or other organizations may be retained or sold."gram)

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