Talk:List of Apollo lunar sample displays

Canada

There are also samples at Space Camp Canada / Cosmodome in Laval (from Apollo 15 if I remember well) as well as at the Montreal Science Centre. However, I don’t have sources to confirm this except personal experience at the Cosmodome.

CielProfond (talk) 23:48, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Apollo 15 rocks

Somewhere I read that there are three Apollo 15 rocks on display. One in the article is listed in Germany. I added two that are in the US. Does anyone know if that are all of the A15 rocks on display? Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 00:50, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Bubba73 and others, I thought that this page was for the official governmental distributions made from the Apollo 11 and 17 missions. There are other Moon rocks displayed outside of these two giveaways (Harvard has one, etc.). Randy Kryn (talk) 03:49, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Well, one Apollo 15 rock was already included, so I added two other Apollo 15 rocks - one of which I saw two days ago. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:51, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

The Harvard Moon rock: [1] Maybe the third column in the table should list ones other than A11 and A17. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 03:56, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

That would fill out the scope of the list. I see the well known touchable rock at the D.C. Air and Space Museum also isn't listed, so this list does seem to be one for the Apollo 11 and 17 diplomatic giveaways, although the title does seem open-ended. Maybe a note at the wikiproject would get more opinions if the page should be expanded to include all known exhibits (the creator of the page seems to have left the site in 2020). Randy Kryn (talk) 04:02, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

Found this 404ed former link on one of the pages: Partial list of Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 sample locations, NASA Johnson Space Center. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:13, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

It seems that the article list might be based on the ones bulk distributed to each state, territory, and other countries, and not the other ones. IIRC, the one in D.C. is from Apollo 11. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:51, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

The first sentence of the article says "This is a list of lunar sample displays from the Apollo program that were distributed through the United States and around the world. " So it was started as a list of ones distributed with plaques. I think it would be good to list all on public display. Bubba73 ^{You talkin' to me?} 05:55, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

No reason why not. Thanks for starting the expansion. Randy Kryn (talk) 19:28, 22 June 2022 (UTC)

I would really disagree with this interpretation. There are hundreds of random moon rocks on display throughout the world - I can think of 4 (besides the two "official" ones with a plaque) in Ohio alone. This would make the list a mess and impossible to manage. I cleaned it up last year from this state - it was a disaster and sourcing was a mess - samples were mislabeled and there were about a million entries for each. I really recommend we keep this to the "official" giveaways as that is a more manageable list. I'm open to a wikiproject for a more expanded list, I just don't think here is the place to do it. Blervis (talk) 16:13, 17 February 2023 (UTC)