The July 26 sale will feature artifacts from Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 missions.
"The sale covers the full scope of Dr. Aldrin's career, starting with his doctoral work at MIT, where he wrote his PhD thesis on the lunar module rendezvous technique, to mission artifacts from Gemini 12, where he did his first spacewalk, and objects from the greatest mission, Apollo 11," said Hatton.
As it happened, the broken switch was required to arm the lander's ascent engine. While flight controllers in Mission Control devised a software solution, Aldrin came up with an idea of his own. The Duro-brand ink marker and the plastic nib, which in 2017 were loaned to the Smithsonian for a two-year, five-citySotheby's is also offering the jacket Aldrin wore on the Apollo 11 mission when he was not wearing his"It's got the NASA emblem, the Apollo 11 eagle emblem, his name and American flag, and some of the most famous pictures from the mission, other than the actual, are of Buzz wearing this jacket in the spacecraft," Hatton said.
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