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The moon rock that is now on display in the Oval Office was collected by astronauts on the lunar surface.
The 3.9-billion -year-old sample was chipped "from a large boulder at the base of the North Massif in the Taurus-Littrow Valley " by Apollo 17 astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt .
The 0.7-pound ( 333-gram ) rock, held by a metal clamp and encased in glass, sits on the bottom shelf of a recessed bookcase.
Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com .
He is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of " Space Stations: The Art, Science , and Reality of Working in Space" In 2021 , he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
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