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NASA Sues Astronaut For Selling Camera

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Took it to the moon on Apollo 14.

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Apparently NASA frowns on this solution to their funding woes. The space agency is suing former astronaut Edgar Mitchell for trying to sell a camera he took to the moon on the Apollo 14 mission. NASA learned the British auction house Bonhams was putting the camera up for sale for an estimated price between $60,000 to $80,000. Mitchell's lawyer says NASA gave Mitchell the camera as a gift. Mitchell was the sixth person to walk on the moon, and now runs a website selling autographed pictures.

Read it at The Daily Mail