Apollo 11: 50 years later, Tokyo exhibits its moon rocks A nine-year-old Shigekazu Yoneda had to beg his older cousin to take him to the 1970 Osaka Expo, dying to see the "moon rock" brought back by Apollo 11 the previous year.He had to wait in a long queue for hours under the harsh sun, but he now believes the experience of witnessing the tiny pieces of space objects inspired his life as a scientist.Half a century later, Yoneda, now 59, still admires the moon rock as the curator of meteorites at the National Museum of Nature and Science. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES