Neil Armstrong’s Bag containing Long-Lost Apollo 11 Artifacts discovered

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17. They would have ended up in a junk pile ..

On the Lunar Surface as part of the crashed Ascent Stage of Eagle LEM.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0210/Forgotten-lunar-landing-artifacts-found-by-Neil-Armstrong-s-widow

To be clear, the bag was not something Armstrong snuck home from the moon. After returning to lunar orbit, the bag and its contents were moved from Eagle to the command module "Columbia" before the lander was directed to crash back to the surface. Had the purse remained aboard, it too would have been destroyed.

Armstrong mentioned the purse to command module pilot Michael Collins as it was being transferred from one craft to the other.

"That [is] just a bunch of trash that we want to take back — LM parts, odds and ends," Armstrong said.

Later, Collins called Mission Control to note where the bag was being placed for the trip home and about how much it weighed.

I imagine Armstrong wanted some personal mementos that meant something to him. More power to him.