A very determined woman, Nancy Carlson bought an “empty” white cloth bag at a 2015 auction of government discards. She sent the bag to NASA to get proof of its history and learned it had been used in the first manned mission to the moon, Apollo 11, to carry moon rocks. The government agency also discovered there were still traces of moon dust inside it, claimed the bag shouldn’t have been sold, and it belonged to the government. In December 2016, a judge ruled that the bag legally belonged to Nancy. So, therefore, did the $1.8 million it brought at auction on July 20, 2017. It pays to get written proof of the history of a valuable item. The name of the new owner was not reported. (See our earlier reports on the bag of moon dust in Kovels Komments Sept. 14, 2016, and May 31, 2017.)