Before the crew of apollo 11 brought back the first moon rocks, many thought such artifacts might first be found by a 12-year-old from Iowa. Amazingly, there was a time when people were betting on who-astronauts or schoolkids-would be the first lunar rock hound. NASA had undertaken a quixotic effort to get moon rocks without actually going to the moon. Under 1964's Project Moon Harvest, farmers and schoolchildren in six counties across western Iowa were encouraged to dig up their neighborhoods in search of possible lunar meteorites.
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