NASA lost the test items, and three cockroaches that had eaten the lunar soil were now auctioned off for $400,000
During this time, NASA was constantly in turmoil, either the satellite launch failed, or the Weber Space Telescope was hit by micromatter, and the main lens had been damaged. These successive bad news have made NASA, which was already overtaken by China's aerospace, very anxious, but the storm will not stop there, and just recently NASA urgently recalled the test items that were lost by it. And this test item is very special, is 3 cockroaches, by the public disgust and beating cockroach, why did it become NASA test items? The reason is that NASA fed the cockroaches the lunar soil.
After Armstrong brought back the lunar soil from the moon that year, NASA began to actively study whether it would admit that it would be harmful to life on Earth, so it used some of the lunar soil to raise cockroaches and other insects. Entomologist Marion Brooks, who mixed lunar soil into food to feed cockroaches, eventually found that it did not cause harmful effects on insects on Earth. After the study, Marion did not return the three cockroaches and lunar soil used for the test to NASA, and NASA did not ask for it. When Marion died, her daughter auctioned the test materials and estimated that they could sell for $400,000.
Three cockroaches that had eaten lunar soil were now auctioned off for $400,000, and it wasn't until NASA realized it had lost its test supplies. But it wasn't until a month after the auction that it sent an official email to the auction house, saying that it was not illegal to auction 3 cockroaches and lunar soil, and its sovereignty should belong to NASA. Indeed, the auction will be stopped immediately, and NASA, although it stops the loss in time, will not be able to close its serious loophole in the preservation of space items. This is not the first time it has lost a space item, and before the cockroach, NASA also lost the bag that Armstrong used to collect lunar soil samples.
In 2017, the bag was auctioned off for $1.8 million, after which the prototype of the moon rover was also found to be lost, sold by a scrap factory owner for a mysterious price. These examples are enough to illustrate how bad NASA's space cargo storage capabilities are, and such an imprecise space agency, it is no wonder that the United States has not made great progress in spaceflight in recent years, and can only watch being surpassed by other countries. Now NASA has begun to frantically play up the space threat theories of other countries and threaten that the US space is about to be surpassed, which is not wrong. But NASA should perhaps focus more on internal issues than on other countries.
For example, why space supplies continue to flow out, to solve this problem, NASA is qualified to compete with other countries. All in all, even if it does not want to admit it, but the United States' space power is indeed no longer what it used to be, if NASA wants to continue to ensure its leading position, it should actively develop space technology, rather than suppress other countries. This is isolating itself rather than other countries, and whether the United States can join the space station in the future depends on its performance.
(Text/Xi Le)
