o the moon 🌚 and back: In our auction dedicated to Space Exploration this November in #NYC, the only known lunar samples 🌙 with clear and documented provenance to be available for private ownership sold for $855,000. Returned to earth from the unmanned Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970 and presented to the widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev – Chief Designer" & Director of the Soviet Space Program - the moon rocks last sold in Sotheby’s iconic Russian Space History Auction in 1993, marking the first time that a piece of another world was offered for sale to the public.