To the moon and back: Rare 'Lunar Bible' sells for RM242k


A microfilm Bible that flew around the moon with Apollo 13 and later landing on the moon with Apollo 14, sold at an auction of space memorabilia for US$75,000 (RM242,000).

The 3.8cm by 3.8cm ‘Lunar Bible’, which can be read with a microscope, is one of 12 complete Bibles that remain from a collection of 100 Bibles that made it to the moon’s surface with astronaut Edgar Mitchell in 1971.

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