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Цитата:  UNITED NATIONS RECEIVES MOONROCK FROMTHE UNITED STATESVIENNA, 11 June (UN Information Service) – A piece of rock from the Moon is being lent to the United Nations at Vienna by the United States of America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The lunar sample, which is about the size of a golf ball, will be the centrepiece of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs (OOSA) Space Exhibit inside the Vienna International Centre.


The Moon rock will be the biggest piece in Austria and only the second piece of the Moon in the country. It is being presented today (11 June 2002) to the United Nations Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna, Antonio Maria Costa by the Ambassador of the US Mission to International Organizations in Vienna, Kenneth C. Brill.

Lunar sample 15459,6 (014) is a 160-gram fragment of a 4.8kg Moon rock collected by US astronaut James Irwin during the Apollo 15 mission which landed on the Moon on 30 July 1971. During the mission the astronauts used a Lunar Roving Vehicle to travel nearly five kilometres from their Lunar Module, Falcon.