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This Is Why a Book About the Moon Costs $90,500

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I included the $1,500 Moonfire book—Norman Mailer’s account of the Apollo 11—in our space gifts guide. The last 12 books of the 1969-unit edition are $90,500 each. Ninety-thousand-and-five-hundred United States doubloons, people. Here’s why.

https://gizmodo.com/gifts-for-space-explorers-who-swing-among-the-stars-5411986

A funky fancy table and a lunar rock. Just that. Sure, the lunar rock sounds worthy, but when they tell you it’s from a Moon meteor that crashed against our planet, it somehow gets me from wet to dry instantly. I guess a rock brought by the astronauts would add a zero or two to the $90,500 figure, but it just doesn’t have the same flair as the “real” thing. [Fast Company]

https://gizmodo.com/how-an-intern-stole-nasas-moon-rocks-5242736

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