I have a childhood memory of touching a moon rock. I recall it was in a glass box with a small hole in the side and you could put a finger in and touch it.
But I have no recollection of where this occurred. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
eta: I’ve been to Johnson Space Center. Do they have an exhibit like that?
Further details about that restored footage and the story of the search for the lost tapes:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106637066
Oh so you actually TOUCHED a rock, wow
I guess case is closed then, most people think they know that the moonlandnings happened. But you Reeeeeeeallly KNOW KNOW, you did after all touch a rock.
Ladies and gentlemen, conpsiracy theorists. We can all go home, the dispute has been settled: he TOUCHED A ROCK! game over!
what more proof could anyone need?
settled.
I’m sorry, was that a question, or an answer?
Stranger
Hey man, you should see where I touched an astronaut. 
On the sound stage? 
Proof of rocketry?
It’s more evidence than the moon hoax crowd has ever presented.
Actually, I’d say it’s about perfectly their level of “evidence.” There are a lot of great rebuttals to people who claim we didn’t land on the moon, but “I touched a moon rock” isn’t one of them.
Did he moon you?
He tried to, but I said, “I don’t want to see Uranus!”
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Mate, I know this is a cool image in theory, but on it’s face it may as well be the Loch Ness Monster.
Perhaps in a few years we’ll have truly awesome resolution of that same shot, and that will really be impressive. As it sits, there’s not a lot of difference between it and the Face on Mars.
Was it determined that the moon and the Earth were once the same body? Is there any way to prove that a moon rock is indeed from the Moon and nor Earth?
Just call Buzz Aldrin.
I would just love to hear the initial conversation between NASA and Boeing, Grumman and North American.
“Look, we want you to build this honking great big rocket, fly it to the moon with a lunar lander in it but when we get there were just going to fly around the moon a few times and not actually land. Now, I understand that you have about 100,000 engineers and contractors that you’re going to let loose on this project, you can’t tell a single one about our little prank so guess what, they’re going to have to design and build a vehicle that can umm…actually land on the moon and come back”.
The video just blew me away. I mean, I heard about it before and was impressed. But that man can punch!
The video just blew me away. I mean, I heard about it before and was impressed. But that man can punch!
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Yeah, pretty cool at 72.
Not bad at orbital rendezvous, either. 
At which point he said, “That’s a planet, not a moon,” and shoved it in your face anyway.
They have different chemical compositions, or something like that. The problem is not proving that a rock is from the moon–the problem is proving that we got the moon rock by landing and picking it up, versus some sort of unmanned collection and/or a rock that was collected on the Earth (a meteorite). Having a rock from the moon isn’t proof that we went there any more than a Honolulu magnet on my fridge would be proof I went to Hawaii.
Like I said, there’s lots of good evidence that we landed people on the moon–this just isn’t it.
Too bad it wasn’t a space station.
