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Neil Armstrong's Moon Manifest for Bringing Moon Rocks to the U.S.

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ajuhasz

10mo ago· 2 min readenNews

Summary

Neil Armstrong and his crew mates from Apollo 11 had to sign a Moon Manifest for the U.S. Customs Service to bring moon rocks back to the United States in 1969.

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Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails? Declare all articles that you have acquired and are bringing into the United States.
Who would have guessed the regulations would have been enforced so rigorously in 1969 when three men returned to the U.S. from a rather long business trip – to the moon and back.
After more than 477,000 miles roundtrip, they had to file and sign a “General Declaration.”
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Former University of Cincinnati professor Neil Armstrong and his crew mates from Apollo 11 had to sign this Moon Manifest for the U.S. Customs Service to bring

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