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Gael Fashingbauer Cooper from cnet said that There’s a new decoration in President Joe Biden’s Oval Office. Although really, it’s a very old decoration. At the request of the new administration, NASA loaned out a moon rock from its Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The moon rock went on display in the Oval Office on Inauguration Day, Jan. 2\
The loan is “in symbolic recognition of earlier generations’ ambitions and accomplishments, and support for America’s current Moon to Mars exploration approach,” according to NASA’s website. The moon rock is in a protective case with an attached plaque explaining its history.
Astronaut Ronald Evans and moonwalkers Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan, the last humans to set foot on the Moon, chipped this sample from a large boulder at the base of the North Massif in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) from the Lunar Module,” NASA notes on its site.
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