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.

Apollo 17 Goodwill message

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

Listing
Giftee	Apollo 11	Apollo 17	Apollo 15
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] Armstrong Air & Space Museum, Wapakoneta [3]	Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland
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

Listing
Giftee	Apollo 11	Apollo 17	Apollo 15
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
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	Unknown	Beijing Planetarium, Beijing[fn 1]
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][15]
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[16]
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[17]
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 2]	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[19]
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[20]	Natural History Museum, London[21]
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

1. The Apollo 17 luna sample was brought to China by National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in May 1978 as a gift to Hua Guofeng, paramount leader of China. According to reports from Chinese media, the 1.14-gram lunar sample was divided into two halves: one was sent to scientists in China Academy of Sciences for research, from which around 40 scientific papers were published; another, 0.5-gram weight, was preserved in Beijing Planetarium.[12][13][14]
2. 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.[18]

See also

• Apollo 11 goodwill messages (Messages by nations left on the Moon)

References

2. Apollo 17 lunar displays
3. Apollo 11 lunar displays
4. Pearlman, Robert (1999–2012). "Where today are the Apollo 11 goodwill lunar sample displays?". collectspace.com. Retrieved November 2, 2012.
5. "Hall of Space Museum | Cosmosphere | Hutchinson, KS". Cosmosphere. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
6. New Hampshire Apollo 17 Moon Rock
7. Ahern, Sean (December 3, 2009). "The dark side of the moon rock". spotlightnews.com. Archived from the original on February 3, 2013. Retrieved November 3, 2012. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
8. Price, Jay (July 28, 2010). "State's elusive moon rock soon to become a big star". News & Observer. Raleigh, North Carolina: McClatchey. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
9. Price, Jay (July 28, 2010). "North Carolina's moon rock to shine again in state museum". News & Observer. Raleigh, North Carolina: McClatchey. Retrieved November 3, 2012.
10. "(article)". Earth magazine: 49. March 2011.
11. "Apollo moon rock rediscovered in Cambodia debuts on display". Collect Space. 20 June 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
12. "月岩 (Moon rock)". 北京天文馆 (Beijing Planetarium). 14 April 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
13. "探月计划之历程揭秘 中国探月事业40年记". 人民网. 29 February 2004. Archived from the original on 31 October 2004. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
14. 赛先生 (17 December 2020). ""嫦娥五号"带回2千克多的月壤，终于不再用0.5克来发论文了". 新浪科技. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
15. "Vojenský Historický Ústav Praha". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
17. "The Moon". Technik Museum Speyer, Germany. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
18. "€3.8m treasure hunt under way in Finglas dump". Retrieved 26 February 2016.
19. "Schatzkammer Liechtenstein". Retrieved 21 November 2017.
20. Cornock, David (30 December 2015). "Wales plea over Apollo 11 moon dust gift". BBC News. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
21. "Moon rock". Natural History Museum. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 May 2015.

External links

• Lunar Sample Display locations (in .pdf)
• Collect Space - Moonrock list