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[i]When Nancy Lee Carlson discovered an online auction two years ago for moon dust, she couldn't believe her luck. A geology buff, she spent childhood summers scouring for rocks along Michigan's Lake Superior, but wasn't a serious collector. She figured the dust was genuine because it was being auctioned on behalf of the U.S. Marshals Service. "Ooh boy, that's something I'd love to have," she recalls thinking, remembering the astronauts and spacewalks she watched growing up. The 62-year-old hadn't bid on anything as high as its estimate—$995—but the white, zippered pouch containing the moon dust was bundled in a group with a launch key for the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz T-14 and a black padded headrest from an Apollo command module. She decided the pieces "had a story I could figure out," so she clicked once and won. After months of sleuthing that led to a legal showdown with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, she indeed figured it out: The U.S. government mistakenly sold her some of the first moon dust it had ever collected.[/i]
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