Sotheby's exposed on auction lunar soil, space chess and Tsiolkovsky Konstantin

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At auctions the auction house of Sotheby's to United States of America particles of lunar soil which in 1970 were delivered to Earth by the Soviet automatic station "Luna-16" were sold. The metal box with soil samples, or regolith, was sold for 885 thousand dollars, transfers information agency "RIA Novosti"...