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Astronaut Aldrin’s Apollo 11 jacket sold at auction
The Apollo 11 astronauts stand next to their spacecraft in 1969 (from left): Colonel Edwin E. Aldrin, Lunar Module pilot, flight commander Neil Armstrong and Lieutenant Michael Collins, command module pilot. photo
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This piece was worth millions to the bidder: a whopping 2.8 million dollars went over the table for the artifact from space. But it is also a piece of contemporary history.
The jacket that ex-astronaut Buzz Aldrin (92) flew to the moon on board the “Apollo 11” mission around half a century ago has been auctioned in New York for almost three million dollars. Sotheby’s announced that the garment brought in around $2.8 million at auction, making it the most expensive space artifact ever auctioned and the most expensive jacket ever auctioned.