BUZZ ALDRIN'S MOON JACKET SELLS FOR AN ASTRONOMICAL $2.8 MILLION

  • 27/07/2022

Buzz Aldrin's space suit, which cost $2.8 million (£2.3 million), was purchased at a New York auction.

Mr. Aldrin donned the white in-flight jacket as he sped through space in Apollo 11's command module Columbia, which was adorned with a US flag and the NASA insignia.

The 92-year-old has chosen to list 69 of his own possessions for sale.

The Sotheby's sale of the jacket makes it the most expensive American space artefact ever to be sold at auction.

The last surviving member of the mission's three-person crew, the former astronaut visited the Moon in 1969. Mr Aldrin spent the majority of the six-day journey in space wearing the inflight jacket, changing out of it only mid-way through to swap into a pressure suit for stepping on to the lunar surface itself.

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