Alaska Gets Moon Rocks Back
Were kept by the man who saved them from an arson at the museum
A display of moon rocks that disappeared from an Alaska museum after an arson fire nearly four decades ago has been returned to the state following the settlement of a lawsuit by a man who claimed he rescued the rocks from the rubble.
State and federal officials at a news conference Thursday displayed the returned relic -- tiny moon rocks encased in a golf ball-size acrylic glass ball and mounted on a walnut plaque above a small Alaska flag that traveled to the moon aboard Apollo 11.
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