Scientific Samples
Space & Beyond Box - NASA Collection
Celebrate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration! Gear up and explore NASA with custom apparel, desk accessories, and more. Contents of this box include: Space Particles: NASA Edition - In this issue, you'll explore Saturn's small wonders, past and present...
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Space & Beyond Box Exoplanets Collection
Take a trip outside of our solar system to explore exoplanets with the products in the Space & Beyond Box. Study with an exoplanet globe, flashcards, t-shirt, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Exoplanets Edition - Explore...
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Jezero Crater Regolith
Get your hands on simulant of the Jezero Crater! Engineered to be chemically and mechanically identical to soil in the crater where Perseverance touched down in February 2021, this regolith is a mixture of dust, soil, broken rock, and other organic materials.
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Space & Beyond Box Nebulae Collection
Tour the nebulae with the products in this Space & Beyond Box. Explore their wonder and beauty with flashcards, a crystal model, a mug, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Nebulae Edition - Explore the many kinds of...
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Space & Beyond Box - Solar System Collection
Take a trip through the solar system with the Solar System Collection. Study the solar system with an exclusive Pluto globe, a book that will guide you through the night sky, and much more.Contents of this box include: Space Particles:...
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Space & Beyond Box - Mars Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Mars, the Red Planet. Get hands on with a custom globe, a 3D topographic map, and a Mars atlas!Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Mars Edition - In this issue,...
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Space & Beyond Box - Milky Way Collection
Explore the Milky Way! Learn about galaxies with a Milky Way globe, flashcards, a poster, and more. Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Milky Way Galaxy Edition - Explore how planets get their water, the affect of exploding stars...
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Space & Beyond Box - Jupiter Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items related to Jupiter, the king of the planets. Get hands on with a custom globe, an planetary notebook, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Jupiter Edition - Dive Deeper into...
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Solar System Mineral Kit
Explore moons and planets through exciting mineral specimens! This Astronomy magazine exclusive Solar System Mineral Kit, created by the editors at Astronomy magazine, is the ideal way to introduce students and astronomy enthusiasts to earthly minerals that represent the planets, moons, and asteroids...
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Lunar Highlands Specimen
The Moon may be thousands of miles away, but a small piece is available with the Lunar Highlands Classic Riker Box Specimen. This lunar dust material is acquired from the lunar meteorite NWA 5000 and hand crafted into a Moon...
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Space & Beyond Box - Stars Collection
Get ready to explore the stars with this this Space & Beyond Box that includes a unique globe of the sun, constellations rocks glass, James Webb telescope pin, and more! Contents of this box include: Space Particles: Stars Edition -...
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Triceratops Bone
Triceratops lived during the Cretaceous period and were prevalent in South Dakota in the Hell Creek Formation. This specimen derives from this same location. Triceratops belonged to the Ceratopsids family which meant they were quadrupeds with bony frills, horns, and...
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Mighty Mosasaur Pocket Fossil
With its strong teeth, the mighty Mosasaur swam during the Cretaceous period catching its food and dominating the seas. Each Mosasaur had dozens of sharp teeth between their jaws and could grow up to 56 feet long. This warm-blooded reptile...
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Apollo 11 Command Module Foil
Own a piece of history with this Apollo 11 Command Module Foil fragment. Initially aboard the space shuttle Columbia, this fragment of foil helped to protect astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their journey to the Moon and...
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Meteorite Exploration Kit
This Astronomy magazine exclusive Meteorite Kit is the ideal way to introduce students and astronomy enthusiasts to the various types of meteorites. Each kit includes 6 meteorite samples and 3 meteorwrong samples, each in individually labeled cases for easy identification. Also contains a loupe magnifier and magnet for further investigation.  A 16-page educational booklet...
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Libyan Desert Glass
Formed from an asteroid or comet airburst explosion hitting silica-rich sands, these specimens of Libyan Desert Glass date back roughly 28,500,000 years. Each glass sample is derived from the southeastern spur of Africa’s Great Sand Sea and is yellow green...
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Death of the Dinosaurs - K-PG Boundary and Deccan Traps
The mass extinction of the dinosaurs is theorized to have occurred by the impact of the Chicxulub Asteroid and the flood basalts of the Indian Subcontinent known as Decann Traps. This sample includes evidence from both major theories of the...
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Mammoth Hair
This specimen of mammoth hair dates back 19,551 years! Found near the Indigkra River in Russia, this tuft or hair is a small piece of history of the ancestors of the modern African Elephant. Mammoths stood 10-12 feet at the...
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Insect in Baltic Amber
Imagine being trapped in amber for 40,000,000 to 60,000,000 years! Each sample of these insects trapped in amber displays an insect that was captured from a treasure trove of fossilized insects from the Baltic Sea. Dating back to the Eocene...
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Earliest Life - North Pole Dome Stromatolite
The oldest known fossil material are the North Pole Dome stromatolites of the Dresser Formation in Western Australia and date back to 3.4 billion years old. Each specimen is hand cut from a rough material and measures approximately 5mm across....
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Extraterrestrial Amino Acids - CM2 Carbonaceous Chondrites
A small piece of outer space is encased in this sample of Carbonaceous Chondrites. This sample includes amino acids found from the meteoric material that falls to Earth from outer space. Two special carbonaceous chondrites found in this sample are...
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Brachiosaurus Bone
This fragment of a brachiosaurus bone reminds us of the giant creatures that once roamed the Earth. The brachiosaurus roamed the Earth during the Jurassic period and were mainly located in the Morrison Formation in Utah. This fragment comes from...
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Otodus Fossil Tooth - First Megatooth Shark
During the Paleocene Epoch, the Megatoothed sharks emerged as apex predators, dominating the seas for nearly 60,000,000 years. Otodus obliquus was the first of these giant ocean predators, with vertebrae over 5 inches in diameter, and an estimated body length...
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Punched Computer Tape Section
OWN A PIECE OF ONE OF THE OLDEST COMPUTER PROGRAMS EVER CREATED Perforated paper tape, also known as computer tape, was an early form of physical media used for storing digital data. It was first developed in 1725 and rose...
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Petrified Lightning - Saharan Fulgurite Riker Box Specimen
When lightning strikes dry sand, the intense heat melts and fuses the silica creating tubes of rough glass called fulgurites. The process happens quickly, often trapping molecules from the surrounding atmosphere inside the walls of the impact tube. These natural...
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Pterosaur Tooth - Classic Riker Box Specimens
This specimen is an individual Pterosaur tooth. It comes from the Kem Kem beds of Morocco and is associated with Coloborhynchus, a Pterosaur from the Early Cretaceous with an estimated wingspan of 5m (15ft). Pterosaur Tooth Sizing: Small - 1.5 cm and...
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Ankylosaurus Dermal Armor - Scute Fragment
Covered in rows of bony plates and wielding a powerful clubbed tail, the Ankylosaurs are one of the most distinctive and successful of all dinosaur families. Spread across more than 90 million years of the fossil record, various species of...
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Fossil White Shark Tooth
The Great White Shark: an apex predator known around the world that dominates the ocean with its ferocity. This species has existed for millions of years and evolved into a deadly hunter as it spread through the global seas. It...
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Woolly Mammoth Tooth - Riker Box Specimens
A full-grown woolly mammoth, just one species of the genus Mammuthus, stood 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3.5 m) at the shoulder, with a shaggy coat of hair. The woolly mammoth's hair provided a substantial advantage in the struggle...
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Ancient Oceans - 4-in-1 Fossil Specimen Collection
When life first appeared in the world's oceans, it did so in a minuscule form we would hardly recognize, as tiny photosynthetic bacteria struggling for existence. Billions of years later, during the Cambrian Period, life blossomed in diversity with fish,...
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Space Shuttle Challenger - Flown LRSI Tile Fragment
The Space Shuttle Challenger (OV-099) was the second of the space shuttles in the program to enter orbit, embarking on its maiden voyage on April 4, 1983. Over the course of its ten missions, the shuttle gathered scientific data, repaired satellites, and...
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Space Shuttle Columbia - Flown Nose Landing Gear Tire
 This specimen comes from a mission-flown, Space Shuttle nose landing gear tire which was removed from service after the Space Shuttle Columbia's 13th mission, STS-52. The specimen is encased in an acrylic specimen jar and housed in a 4"...
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Space & Beyond Box - Eclipse Collection
This Space & Beyond Box includes items to help you commemorate and experience the upcoming eclipse on April 8, 2024. Plan for the the eclipse with a complete guide, wraparound glasses, maps, and more! Contents of this box include: Space...
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Particle Accelerator Beam Steering Magnet
This is one of four beam-steering magnets from the renowned Aladdin electron storage ring, a synchrotron particle accelerator. From the 1980s until 2014, this machine produced synchrotron radiation for high-energy physics experiments. Aladdin was housed at the Synchrotron Radiation Center...
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NASA Pioneer 10 Mission Data Section
This has been one of our longest-awaited, and most-anticipated items, but we always make sure the provenance checks out—no matter how long it takes. Unlock a piece of interstellar history with a genuine section of mission data tape from NASA's...
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NASA Apollo 11 Beta Cloth Insignia Production Print
These patches were printed in 1969 for the Apollo 11 mission. After the tragic Apollo 1 launch pad fire that killed 3 astronauts, NASA decided to work on removing all flammable materials from the spacecraft cabin. A new material was...
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Supercomputer Memory Chip
This chip was once part of one of the smartest/fastest/largest mainframe computers in the world, pushing the limits of computational power in its day. Supercomputers were introduced in the 1960s, and for several decades the fastest were made by Seymour...
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Uranium Glass Ball
Uranium glass is a type of glass made with a small amount of the radioactive element with atomic number 92. This causes it to glow intensely bright green under ultraviolet light. It was once common for glass manufacturers to add...
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Space Blanket
The Mylar space blanket was developed by NASA to reduce heat loss for spacecraft as well as humans. The material is a thin sheet of plastic that’s been coated with an atomically thin metallic layer. The result is an extremely...
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NASA Space Shuttle Blueprint Fragment
This section of paper was a piece of a blueprint used to manufacture a critical component of the Space Shuttle Columbia. These are not modern reproductions. They were produced in the 1970s for use in the Space Shuttle Orbiter development. Each display includes...
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NASA Skylab Computer Program Section
This section of data tape contains the automated commands for the X-ray spectrographic telescope on Skylab. With this program, NASA ground control was able to guide its operations, data collection, and alignment for solar observation. About Skylab Skylab, the United...
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NASA Explorer 7 Satellite Telemetry Data Section
This strip of magnetic tape includes a portion of raw telemetry data for the Explorer 7 satellite. This listing is for a section of tape in an acrylic case that was cut from a larger spool recorded in October 1959. In 1955,...
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NASA Surveyor 7 Assembly Film Section
In 2021, we acquired a mystery film reel. The canister holding the 16mm film had NASA information on it, so we purchased it without knowing what was on it. We sent it to multiple digitization companies, but the spool holding...
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NASA Space Suit Material Swatch
Beta cloth is a fireproof material woven from teflon-coated glass fibers. It was developed by NASA and the Owens Corning Corporation for use as the outer layer of the Apollo space suits and in-flight garments worn by the astronauts. After...
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Mount St. Helens Volcanic Ash
The ash in this capsule was violently ejected from Mount St. Helens during the most disastrous volcanic activity in US history. On the morning of May 18 1980, after weeks of small tremors, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake shook the state...
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Bismuth Crystal
Bismuth, atomic element number 83, is an interesting metal with many unique properties. It is almost as dense as lead but without the high toxicity. It is also one of the least thermally conductive metals but has a relatively low...
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Manhattan Project Shield Window - Full Window 54" Wide
A truly exceptional, one-of-a-kind artifact from WWII. This complete shield window from the Manhattan Project's T-221 Plant in Hanford, Washington is breathtaking to behold. The Manhattan Project was the codename for the research and development effort which allowed the United...
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Allosaurus Vertebra
With its iconic skull "hornlets," Allosaurus struck a unique and intimidating figure when compared to other carnivorous dinosaurs. This bipedal predator lived during the Late Jurassic, over 145,000,000 years ago, and used its powerful bite to take down prey in...
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Pachycephalosaurus Dome Fragment
Pachycephalosaurus was a Late Cretaceous dinosaur with a unique feature: its skull had a battering ram like bone plate. This several inch thick helmet of bone allowed it to absorb blunt force when it struck its head against surfaces. This...
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Ammonite
Ammonites are an extinct group of cephalopods that entered the fossil record 400 million years ago. They survived several mass extinction events, including the Permian–Triassic "Great Dying" which wiped out 96% of all marine species. They finally succumbed during the...
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