It is being sold by a private collector who purchased it previously from Buzz Aldrin, New York auctioneers Christie’s said.
LOS ANGELES - The detailed manual used by US astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon in 1969 is going up for auction in July and could fetch up to $9 million , New York auctioneers Christie’s said on Wednesday.
“These are step-by-step instructions that cover the entire portion of the Eagle flight. It is a series of instructions on everything from ‘don your helmets’ to ‘check your power system,’” Christina Geiger, head of books and manuscripts at Christie’s, told Reuters. Since there was no audio or video recording of what happened in the cockpit of the Eagle, the manual is regarded as a unique witness to space history. It also marks the first writing by a human being on another celestial body.Collectors pay huge sums for space exploration artefacts. In 2017, Sotheby’s sold a zippered bag used by Armstrong and laced with moondust for $1.8 million.
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