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Arkansas lunar sample displays

Arkansas lunar sample displays

The Arkansas lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of Arkansas by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.

Description

Apollo 11

Main article: Apollo 11 lunar sample display

Plaques on the California Apollo 11 lunar sample display, similar to the display in Arkansas

Apollo 17

Main article: Apollo 17 lunar sample display

History

In 1976, the Arkansas Apollo 17 lunar sample display was presented to Arkansas governor David Pryor; Bill Clinton succeeded Pryor as Governor of Arkansas. Valued at several million dollars, the display was reported missing around 1980. It was rediscovered in 2011 by an archivist, according to the director of the Central Arkansas Library System. The archivist found it in a box of Clinton's gubernatorial materials in the basement of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies in Little Rock. The plastic ball container holding the Moon rock was broken off in a box of Clinton's gubernatorial materials. (It has since been reattached.) It was turned over for display at the Arkansas Museum of Discovery in Little Rock.

According to Moon rocks researcher Robert Pearlman, the Arkansas Apollo 11 lunar sample display is also housed at the Arkansas Museum of Discovery.

References

References

  1. (September 22, 2011). "Long-Lost Moon Rock Turns Up In Clinton Papers". [[NBC]].
  2. (November 22, 2011). "Lost Moon Rock Found In Bill Clinton's Arkansas Gubernatorial Papers". [[The Huffington Post]].
  3. (September 22, 2011). "State's '76 moon rock turns up / It, plaque found in basement box". [[Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]].
  4. (September 22, 2011). "Arkansas' lost moon rock found in Clinton's files". [[Reuters]].
  5. (January 18, 2011). "Museum of Discovery Shows Off Moon Rocks". InArkansas.com.
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