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NASA's lawsuit against moonwalker to go forward

12 October 2011

NASA isn’t pleased: it is suing the sixth man on the moon after learning that he intended to sell an Apollo 14 camera.

says NASA agreed to let astronauts keep some mission mementos. In 1971, he landed on the moon during the . He brought a movie camera home with him that had been on the lunar lander.

After ferrying Mitchell and Alan Shepard between the command module and the moon’s surface, the lander was allowed to crash onto the moon. NASA had planned to bring the back to Earth but leave the…

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