page_title: West Virginia lunar sample displays
section_title: Apollo 11
hierarchical_section_title: West Virginia lunar sample displays / Description / Apollo 11
caption_attribution_description: California Goodwill moon rock from Apollo 11. Repository: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archive
context_page_description: The West Virginia lunar sample displays are two commemorative plaques consisting of small fragments of Moon specimen brought back with the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 lunar missions and given in the 1970s to the people of the state of West Virginia by United States President Richard Nixon as goodwill gifts.
context_section_description: The West Virginia Apollo 11 lunar sample display commemorative plaque consists of four "Moon rock" rice-size particle specimens that were collected by Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin in 1969 and a small West Virginia state flag that was taken to the Moon and back on Apollo 11.
  The four "Moon rocks" weigh about 0.05 grams in total. They are encased in a clear plastic button the size of a coin which is mounted to a wooden board approximately one foot square on a small podium pedestal display. The small podium plaque display also has mounted on it a small West Virginia state flag that had been taken to the Moon and back, which lies directly below the "goodwill Moon rocks". The small podium plaque display was given to the people of the state of West Virginia as a gift by United States President Richard Nixon. Similar lunar sample displays were also distributed to all the other states of the United States and all the countries (at the time) of the world.
caption: Plaques on the California Apollo 11 lunar sample display, similar to the display in West Virginia
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