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You would think a BBC article on this topic would mention the bizarre postscript, where Lunokhod 2 and Luna 21 were sold at auction for around $70K USD to Richa
by tigeba 11y ago
You would think a BBC article on this topic would mention the bizarre postscript, where Lunokhod 2 and Luna 21 were sold at auction for around $70K USD to Richard Garriott.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Garriott
- knodi123 11y agoSold, sure, but possession is 9/10ths of the law, and both of those probes are currently on the moon. It seems more like one of those "buy a star" things than an actual bargain-basement sale of a priceless relic of the space race.