Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the second person ever to step on the moon, says he will sell the jacket that he wore to the moon.
Aldrin, the last surviving Apollo 11 flight crew member, is now 92 years old. Last week, Buzz Aldrin announced that he would share his items with the rest of the world. Many other personal items were posted on the Sotheby’s Auction House as a collection.
The jacket is one of 69 different items that Aldrin has put up for auction. Some other items include a broken breaker switch and the black felt-tip marker he used to fix it.
Although the rest of the world thinks that these items are just a symbol of an important event in history, Aldrin said that to him, they are just “personal mementos of a life dedicated to science and exploration.”
Many people bid unbelievable amounts of money to outbid everyone else. The auction’s winner was a bidder that came in on the phone. The final bid amount was 2.7 million US dollars. The jacket is marked with an American flag, a NASA logo, an Apollo 11 patch, and E ALDRIN.
This piece of clothing was manufactured out of a fire-resistant cloth. The jacket is the only piece of clothing from the Apollo 11 mission to be sold. Aldrin said the jacket was “much more comfortable” than his space suit. “I wore this in-flight coverall jacket … in the command module Columbia, on our historic journey to the moon and back home again during the Apollo 11 mission,” Aldrin said.
Aldrin had spent most of the six-day space journey to the moon wearing the Jacket. He had only taken it off to change into his space suit when he stepped onto the moon. Now it is worth 2.7 million dollars.
Aldrin, the last surviving Apollo 11 flight crew member, is now 92 years old. Last week, Buzz Aldrin announced that he would share his items with the rest of the world. Many other personal items were posted on the Sotheby’s Auction House as a collection.
The jacket is one of 69 different items that Aldrin has put up for auction. Some other items include a broken breaker switch and the black felt-tip marker he used to fix it.
Although the rest of the world thinks that these items are just a symbol of an important event in history, Aldrin said that to him, they are just “personal mementos of a life dedicated to science and exploration.”
Many people bid unbelievable amounts of money to outbid everyone else. The auction’s winner was a bidder that came in on the phone. The final bid amount was 2.7 million US dollars. The jacket is marked with an American flag, a NASA logo, an Apollo 11 patch, and E ALDRIN.
This piece of clothing was manufactured out of a fire-resistant cloth. The jacket is the only piece of clothing from the Apollo 11 mission to be sold. Aldrin said the jacket was “much more comfortable” than his space suit. “I wore this in-flight coverall jacket … in the command module Columbia, on our historic journey to the moon and back home again during the Apollo 11 mission,” Aldrin said.
Aldrin had spent most of the six-day space journey to the moon wearing the Jacket. He had only taken it off to change into his space suit when he stepped onto the moon. Now it is worth 2.7 million dollars.
