A piece of moon rock gifted to Ireland following NASA's historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969 was tragically destroyed in a fire, newly uncovered documents from Ireland's National Archives reveal.

wp:paragraph --> After 50 years, you’d think there is no picture of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing that hasn ... camera perched on a flat-topped rock in the background.

The fate of Ireland's Apollo 11 display has been known for decades ... “It was decided to give the Moon rock to Dunsink when it became known that a second gift was to be made by the US ...

Credit: Xinhua News Agency / Getty Images The newest moon rocks to have landed on Earth ... also the first to land people on it — the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Astronauts collected nearly ...

are the first to return lunar rocks to Earth since the 1970s. Together they are building on what scientists learned from Apollo-era missions, helping to unravel mysteries about how the Moon was ...

Apollo 11: Moonwalk Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong ... Schmitt of Apollo 17 traveled ever farther and collected more moon rocks on their missions. Apollo 13: Lunar Module Turned Lifeboat ...

NASA clinches the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong and ... 4 pounds (1.7 kilograms) of lunar rocks and dirt. Another sample return mission ...

It was at the time of the Apollo 11 landing," space historian Roger Launius said in an interview, explaining that people were immediately doubtful that people had landed on the moon. New York ...

President Trump set the U.S. on a path to sending astronauts back to the lunar surface during his first term. Lately he has ...

The first Moon mission will be called Apollo 11. Its three-person crew is Neil ... Armstrong’s searching for somewhere to land safely between the rocks and craters. The skilled former fighter ...

Apollo rules NASA clinches the space race with the Soviets in 1969 with a moon landing by Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong ... but returned moon rocks to Earth. India triumphs on take 2 After its ...