SOURCE: Time Magazine
11-5-18
tags: Neil Armstrong
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11-5-18
Neil Armstrong's Moon Memorabilia Fetched More Than $7.4 Million at Auction
Breaking Newstags: Neil Armstrong
Memorabilia that belonged to the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has fetched more than $7.4 million at auction.
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $468,500, at Saturday’s auction was Armstrong’s spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11’s lunar module Eagle. 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.
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