A flight manual from Apollo 11 with extensive handwritten notes by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is expected to sell for up to $9 million
The letter-sized document, which contains procedural notes, checklists and flight records, features extensive handwritten notes by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -- and would have sat between the two astronauts on the Eagle landing craft, according to auction house Christie's.It's one of seven items from on board Apollo 11 set to feature at the auction. Other lots include flight plans and a star map.
"I've been in the book auction world for almost 20 years," she said in a phone interview."And, hand on heart, it's the most exciting thing that I've worked." Buzz Aldrin photographed by Neil Armstrong in Apollo 11's lunar module during the moon landing mission on July 20, 1969.For Geiger, it is not only"the most important space exploration document" but one that is unlikely to ever be rivaled. Even if humans were to reach Mars, she said, the digitalization of space travel means an equivalent paper record would never be produced or used."It's such a human artifact," she added.
"It has the feel of all the work that went into , both on the ground and through the real-time annotations by Aldrin and Armstrong."Credit:Items from other NASA missions will also be on display, including a flag flown on Apollo 10 and a sun shade component from a lunar module of Apollo 13 , which famously aborted its attempt to land on the moon in 1970.
Items expected to attract the largest bids include a brush used to clean dust from camera lenses during the Apollo 14 moon landing in 1971, with a top estimate of $175,000, and a stowage strap, still marked with lunar dust, that flew on Apollo 12 and is expected to fetch up to $90,000.
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