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Rare Apollo mission moon rock back in Cyprus after 50 years

A father and son look at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned missions to the moon and the Artemis spacecraft now orbiting the moon, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. A half century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon's surface, this tiny piece of cosmic rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A spectator looks at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned missions to the moon and the Artemis spacecraft now orbiting the moon, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. A half century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon's surface, this tiny piece of cosmic rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A boy looks a screen showing the moon next of a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned missions to the moon and the Artemis spacecraft now orbiting the moon, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. A half century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon's surface, this tiny piece of cosmic rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

A spectator looks at a tiny piece of moon rock encased in a plastic globe, on display at the an exhibition commemorating the 50th anniversary of the last of the U.S. manned missions to the moon and the Artemis spacecraft now orbiting the moon, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022. A half century after U.S. astronauts brought it back from the moon's surface, this tiny piece of cosmic rock has finally reached its intended destination, the east Mediterranean island nation of Cyprus. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Rare Apollo mission moon rock back in Cyprus after 50 years