a different Apollo 17 rock was on display for the 2017 signing of Space Policy Directive 1, which instructed NASA to send astronauts back to the moon and then on to Mars.
Trump’s new decor of the Oval Office could reflect the president’s Mars-bias, chucking the lunar rock out of the White House.
The moon rock was collected in 1972 during the final Apollo mission, Apollo 17, by astronauts Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt, and Eugene Cernan—the last humans to set foot on the moon.