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Auction of Lovell’s Apollo 13 Checklist Draws NASA Inquiry [collectSPACE.com]

The record-setting auction of a checklist used during the ill-fated 1970 Apollo 13 mission has run into trouble, reports Robert Z. Pearlman of collectSPACE.com. Greg Rohan, president of Heritage Auctions in Dallas, said NASA has filed a claim stating that astronaut James Lovell did not have title to the artifact, which sold for $388,375 to an unidentified โ€œeast coast collectorโ€ after a bidding war Nov. 30.

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