US search for missing moon rocks

By Lindsay Whitehurst
Updated September 12 2018 - 5:06pm, first published 5:00pm
Moon rock pieces that disappeared after being given to the US states in 1969 have been rediscovered.
Moon rock pieces that disappeared after being given to the US states in 1969 have been rediscovered.

A strange thing happened after Neil Armstrong and the Apollo 11 crew returned from the moon with lunar rocks - many of the mementos given to every US state vanished.