Coin World reported that two Apollo 11 half dollars have been sent on a trip to space. -Editor

Mint Director David J. Ryder lived up to a promise he made Dec. 13 during a first strike ceremony at the Philadelphia Mint for the Apollo 11 50thAnniversary commemorative coin program - to actually put examples of the coins into space.

Two Proof 2019-S Apollo 11 50th Anniversary copper-nickel clad half dollars were launched into space at 3:14 p.m. Eastern Time on Pi Day, March 14, as partof the payload aboard the Soyuz MS-12 rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the International Space Station.

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NASA sends two Proof 2019-S Apollo 1150th Anniversary half dollars into space (https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-coins/2019/03/apollo-11-coins-head-to-international-space-station.all.html)