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Topic: Moon rock in the White House Oval Office
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 45734
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-22-2021 12:00 AM
   
collectSPACE A moon rock in the Oval Office: President Joe Biden's lunar displayJoe Biden was three weeks from taking office as a freshman U.S. senator when the moon rock that is now newly on display in the White House was collected by astronauts on the lunar surface. Six terms in Congress, two terms as the Vice President of the United States and one presidential inauguration later, Biden and the lunar sample 76015,143 will now share the Oval Office.  |
RobertB
Member Posts: 212
From: Israel
Registered: Nov 2012
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posted 01-22-2021 04:08 AM
And just like that... Biden has one of the best collections of Apollo memorabilia!  |
Mike Dixon
Member Posts: 1520
From: Kew, Victoria, Australia
Registered: May 2003
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posted 01-22-2021 05:19 AM
Wonder what his focus might be on returning to the moon. |
Fra Mauro
Member Posts: 1738
From: Bethpage, N.Y.
Registered: Jul 2002
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posted 01-22-2021 06:39 AM
That’s an important symbolic step to me. Hopefully there will be concrete actions as well! Don’t we wish we could all borrow a lunar sample? |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2669
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 01-22-2021 07:58 AM
I believe a match set of the Apollo moon rock and an Artemis moon rock would be great. A brother and sister display. |
Jonnyed
Member Posts: 473
From: Dumfries, VA, USA
Registered: Aug 2014
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posted 01-22-2021 04:00 PM
And it is almost 3/4 of a pound so it's no small sliver of a moon rock. It's pretty good size.Also, when you click on the newslink, I like the story of how Bill Clinton used to tamper down arguments in the Oval Office by pointing to the moon rock [different one]. |
sts205cdr
Member Posts: 685
From: Sacramento, CA
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 01-23-2021 06:29 PM
I seem to recall an early episode of The West Wing when President Bartlett was asked what he wanted to decorate the Oval Office. His initial request for the Apollo 11 capsule was declined. |
mode1charlie
Member Posts: 1236
From: Honolulu, HI
Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 01-24-2021 12:00 AM
I might be reading too much into it, but it might bode well for Artemis that Biden sees fit to have a relic of America's first voyages to the moon in his office, as a reminder that that accomplishment is something we should honor by extending the endeavor to the current day. |
328KF
Member Posts: 1304
From:
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 01-24-2021 03:12 PM
Despite the NASA press release, I don't see this as anything more than a conversation piece for Biden, much like Clinton used his. And no one has stated categorically that Biden himself requested it. Maybe somebody will ask that question sometime.It's a nice decoration, though. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1818
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 01-24-2021 03:32 PM
Exactly... |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 45734
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 03-04-2021 03:15 PM
President Biden today (March 4) spoke about the moon rock, as he recounted during a call with the NASA-JPL Mars Perseverance team: I had a group of folks in my office not too long ago, House members, Democrats and Republicans, and was talking about infrastructure. And I have on my shelf in the Oval Office a moon rock and they walked over and said, "This is actually a moon rock from the moon?" And I jokingly said, "You ain't see nothin' yet, wait until you see what comes home from Mars!" |
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