Million-dollar bids expected as ‘moon dust’ heads to auction

The bag that was used to carry the very first lunar samples back to Earth is expected to fetch millions in an upcoming space exploration auction at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.

Thursday marks 48 years to the day that man first walked on the moon.

The bag that was used to carry the very first lunar samples back to Earth is expected to fetch millions in an upcoming space exploration auction at Sotheby’s auction house in New York.

Al Jazeera’s Kristen Saloomey reports from New York.