
Neil Armstrong's customs form for moon rocks (2016)
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created: July 23, 2025, 3:37 p.m. | updated: July 24, 2025, 3:39 p.m.
by Barbara BlumIf you have ever traveled overseas, then returned to the U.S., you likely filled out a “customs declaration” form on the airplane:“Are you bringing with you: plants, food, animals, soil, disease agents, cell cultures or snails?
Editor notes:Yes, the form really does ask if a person is bringing in snails.
Thanks to UC alumnus Luama Mays, JD ’66, for sharing a copy of the declaration with UC Magazine.
Mays was a pilot who befriended Armstrong while the former astronaut was teaching at UC and Mays was running an aviation company.
Initially Armstrong called him, without even identifying himself, asking for a ride on Mays old "bubble-style" helicopter left over from the Korean War.
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