Soviet-era 'Moon rocks' sell for $855,000 at NY auction
Three fragments of rocks brought from the Moon by a Soviet space mission in 1970 were sold for $855,000 at a New York auction on Thursday, auction house Sotheby's said. They're the only known documented "lunar samples" in private ownership, it added. They originally belonged to Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, the widow of former Soviet space program director Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.