While cleaning out a closet, the late astronaut’s widow discovered a bag of small items taken from the Eagle lander before it was jettisoned for the trip home. The artifacts are now on loan to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum.
NEWS Neil Armstrong's secret stash of Apollo 11 mementos
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