Touch a Moon Rock

Air and Space Magazine claims that only three moonrocks are available for touching, all pieces of Sample 70215. Daughter sample 84 is in the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.



Daughter sample 238 is available to touch at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.



And Daughter sample 286 is touchable at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

However, at least three other Daughter samples of 70215 are available to be touched: Kennedy Space Center in Orlando, Florida has Daughter sample 287 for public access:



And Daughter sample 263 can be found in Vancouver, BC at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

Finally, Daughter sample 11 (known as the Constellation exhibit) is also a touchstone, often seen in traveling exhibitions - most recently in Indiana.

A non-touchable Daughter sample 93 of 70215 can be seen in the Space Center Museum in Alamogordo, NM.



Non-touchable Daughter sample 41 is also part of a traveling exhibit.

Most articles about the traveling exhibit list eight samples that can be handled by the public, though I was unable to locate reference to more than six.

More than you ever wanted to know about Sample 70215.

There are at least several museums in Colorado where one can view a lunar regolith sample, plus a sample at CU and at the School of Mines. Samples gathered during the Apollo 11 landing are in storage. There's also quite a few missing rocks, but you may want to wash them off first.