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Message 1638799 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 4:14:08 UTC
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Carol Armstrong, Neil Armstrong's widow, discovered her husband kept a stash of memorabilia in his closet from the Apollo 11 mission. The stash was recently given to the National Air and Space Museum for all posterity to enjoy for all time.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/secret-stash-of-moon-artifacts-found-hidden-in-neil-arm-1684449533


Reading the gallery of comments on article, I particularly liked Jesus Diaz's comment...

It (the purse) is their property. Apollo astronauts got a lot of mementos from their trips. A recent law (signed by Obama) gave them full property titles over all of them. And rightly so.

Also, this would have been discarded at the time. These things were supposed to be left in the LM, and the LM crashed on the Moon. Armstrong got them as souvenirs because they have space for them in the command module. Good for him.
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Message 1638813 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 6:07:38 UTC

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Message 1638814 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 6:08:18 UTC

It is a tribute to his character that he kept them hid away and never tried to amass wealth by selling the artifacts.
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Message 1639022 - Posted: 8 Feb 2015, 19:48:02 UTC - in response to Message 1638896.  

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