Memorabilia that belonged to the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has fetched more than 7.4 million US dollars at auction.
Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, said the item that sold for the highest price, 468,500 dollars, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle.
JUST SOLD FOR $109,375.00 | Gemini: Neil Armstrong’s Owned and Worn Early Flight Suit Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection™ #HeritageAuctions pic.twitter.com/RQPOt2y6FT
— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) November 1, 2018
Also sold were a fragment from the propeller and a section of the wing from the Wright brothers’ Flyer, the first heavier-than-air self-powered aircraft, which each sold for 275,000 dollars.
SOLD FOR $468,500.00 | Apollo 11 Lunar Module Flown Spacecraft Identification Plate Display Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection™ #HeritageAuctions pic.twitter.com/2veyGXALqS
— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) November 2, 2018
The flight suit Armstrong wore aboard Gemini Eight, the 1966 mission that performed the first docking of two spacecraft in flight, brought the astronaut’s family 109,375 dollars.
SOLD FOR: $275,000.00 | Apollo 11 Lunar Module Flown Piece of the Wright Flyer’s Propeller, Flown as Part of the First Successful Powered Flight in History at Kitty Hawk in 1903 as well as the First Manned Lunar Landing in 1969, Directly From The Armstrong Family Collection™ pic.twitter.com/G1OlOOkJBT
— Heritage Auctions (@HeritageAuction) November 2, 2018
Meanwhile, in a separate auction, a gold-coloured Navy aviator’s helmet once owned by John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, sold for 46,250 dollars.
