A bag used by US astronaut Neil Armstrong to bring the first samples of moon dust back to Earth is expected to sell for up to $4 million at auction tomorrow.
It will be up for auction alongside other space memorabilia at international art auction house Sotheby's.
The bag used by Armstrong was forgotten until it resurfaced three years ago on a US government auction website and was bought by Chicago attorney Nancy Carlson for $995.
She sent the bag to NASA for authentication, and when tests revealed it was used by Armstrong and had traces of moon dust inside, the space agency decided to keep it.
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Ms Carlson successfully sued NASA to get the bag back, and the attention created by her legal challenge prompted many inquiries from potential buyers, according to Sotheby's.
The auction will also feature the Apollo 13 flight plan annotated by its crew, a spacesuit worn by US astronaut Gus Grissom, and lunar photographs taken by the NASA.
