Missouri Apollo 17 Goodwill Moon Rock
In the last few days of his long political career, Kit Bond through his staff, solved a mystery that had intrigued the press, Missouri politicians and members of academia for much of 2010. Missouri state officials had wrongly believed up until June 8, 2010, that they had the very rare and very valuable Apollo 17 lunar sample display with the "goodwill moon rock" at its state museum, when what they had was the Missouri Apollo 11 lunar sample display with the so called "moon rocks". On June 8, 2010, the state woke up to a reality that their 5 million dollar piece of Apollo 17 history was missing. In cleaning out his Senatorial office in December 2010, it was uncovered that Kit Bond had inadvertently taken the Apollo 17 lunar sample display when he left the Governor's Office, and kept it for decades. Bond eventually returned the display to the current governor of Missouri. Kit Bond was one of four former governors who each took their state lunar sample displays upon leaving office, the other three were the former governor's of Colorado, West Virginia, and Arkansas.
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“blue bead on the wick,
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