NASA Is Buying Moon Rocks for Dirt-Cheap Prices

Call it an offer they could not refuse, because it was almost too good to be true.

Three months ago, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration -- NASA -- told space companies that if they could figure out a way to get to the moon, and scrape as little as 50 grams of moon pebbles together in a pile, NASA would buy those rocks. Sight unseen, no delivery necessary -- all a company would need to do is sweep up some moon dust and tell NASA where to find it, and the space agency would cut them a check.

Then NASA sat back and waited for the bids to roll in.

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