11 Best Space Gifts for 2025

Holiday shopping can be stressful, there's a lot of pressure to find a gift that's truly out of this world. Luckily, "out of this world" is our specialty!

Here is a list of our 11 space specimens, including meteorites from the beginning of our solar system, pieces of our Moon, and relics from the NASA missions that took us to the stars! Shopping for a future astronaut? This is the place to be!

First up, a piece of the space mission that changed everything...

The Apollo program was conceived during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration and later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's goal of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" within a decade.

President Kennedy proposed this bold agenda during an address to the United States Congress on May 25th, 1961. On July 20, 1969, NASA fulfilled the mission when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon. This was the 11th flight of the Apollo program, and the success was broadcast live to the entire world.

This specimen is an actual, mission-flown fragment of kapton foil from the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia. This material helped protect Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their journey from Earth to the Moon and back. Salvaged after splashdown, this is a unique collectible from one of the greatest achievements in human history.

You'll never give a jewelry gift like this one again...

At its closest, Mars is about 40 million miles away from Earth, but sometimes a little piece of the red planet comes far nearer. Martian meteorites form when a large impactor strikes the surface, ejecting material that becomes a new meteorite in turn. From these space rocks, we can learn much about our neighbor in the solar system.

This Martian Meteorite Pendant is an acrylic disk that contains Martian surface material. It comes from the shergottite meteorite Amgala 001 which was discovered in 2022.

Give the gift of space rocks!

Thousands of years ago, a massive metal meteorite broke up over the skies of northern Argentina and rocketed to the ground. The impact was witnessed by local indigenous groups, many of whom lost their lives in the forest fires that followed. The story was recorded in their oral histories as a cosmic event, a tale that described the power of the stars.

These specimens are Campo Del Cielo meteorites from Argentina. The IAB meteorite is thought to have fallen in 2500 BCE and was a source of valuable metals as well as an inspiration for creation myths.

Across 30 years, the Space Shuttle program launched dozens of flights of its five orbiters, writing a new chapter in the history of space exploration. During these missions, astronauts ran experiments, made astronomical observations, launched satellites, and performed other tasks in pursuit of knowledge of outer space. Columbia was the first mission-flown shuttle, kicking off three decades of the program.

This specimen is a mission-flown nose landing gear tire fragment from the Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102). Serial number verification against public information indicates the tire was removed from service after Columbia's 13th mission (STS-52).

Moon & Stars pairs lunar dust from the bright highlands of the moon with a dense asteroid forged during the birth of our solar system. Handcrafted here at Mini Museum, this two strand, sterling silver necklace features two specimens: a complete Campo del Cielo meteorite and a Swarovski crystal backed with lunar dust from meteorite NWA 5000.

Looking for a gift for someone you love to the Moon and back? We've got the perfect thing...

The Moon has captured the human eye for millennia. It hangs in the night sky as Earth's singular and beautiful natural satellite. Our moon is uncommonly large proportional to our planet, a fact owed to its likely origin as an asteroid. When we look up to it, we can see the light "terra" and dark "mare," both sections of igneous rock.

This specimen is a hand-crafted resin "moon" containing lunar dust material. It comes from the lunar meteorite NWA 5000 and has been crafted to replicate the shape of our nighttime neighbor. The material's geologic composition has been determined to have come from the lighter highlands of the Moon.

A piece of one of the most famous meteorites to strike Earth!

Normally, the Sun is the brightest object you see in the sky, but on the morning of February 15th, 2013, this wasn’t the case. Just minutes after sunrise, over 18 miles up, an object entering the Earth’s atmosphere exploded over the town of Chelyabinsk in Russia. This object, known as the Chelyabinsk meteor, has since become one of the most witnessed entries of an extraterrestrial object.

This specimen is a Chelyabinsk meteorite fragment. The specimen is housed in an acrylic jar that is encased within a glass-topped riker display box

That's right, we have even more Apollo artifacts!

This specimen is an actual, mission-flown fragment of expansion joint material from the Apollo 8 Command Module thermal protection system. This material kept Apollo astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders safe on their journey from Earth to orbit around the Moon and back. Salvaged after splashdown, this is a unique collectible from an incredible mission that paved the way for the first mission to set foot on the lunar surface.

This specimen comes from the personal collection of post-flight test conductor Jerald B. Wilken, who worked on the inspection and testing of the Apollo 8 Command Module 103 at the North American Rockwell Facility in Downey, California. It was purchased at public auction several years ago and is now officially part of the Mini Museum collection.

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring of rocky objects known as the Asteroid Belt.

The bead at the center of this bracelet contains a mixture of different classes of meteorites (howardite, eucrite, diogenite) from a large impact basin in the southern hemisphere of Vesta, the second-largest object in the Asteroid Belt.

A relic from the mysterious Tunguska blast...

On June 30, 1908, the largest impact event in recorded history occurred over the skies of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Siberia. In an instant, a 12-megaton explosion leveled 80 million trees over an area of 830 square miles (2,150 sq km), and for nights after, the skies of Eurasia glowed with light.

This specimen is a section of wood from a surviving tree of the 1908 Tunguska Event. The material was collected by scientists from the University of Bologna, studying the suspected epicenter of the blast at Lake Cheko.

Last but not least!

This specimen is an actual, mission-flown fragment of Kapton foil from the Apollo 11 Command Module Columbia, previously held in the collection of Dr. Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin. This material helped protect Apollo astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their journey from Earth to the Moon and back.

This new Kapton selection comes from Buzz Aldrin's personal collection and as such it is extremely limited! 

Now that you've explored all space has to offer, check out a few earthbound specimens! https://shop.minimuseum.com/blogs/guides/11-best-history-gifts-for-2025