When the first settlers of Virginia arrived in 1607, a bountiful land extending west through rolling hills, forested mountains, and fertile river valleys lay before them. It might have seemed like Eden until the colonists faced the droughts of summer and the long deprivation of winter. Though the first colonists barely survived, the land proved…
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Bidder Pays $2.8 Million for Jacket Worn in Space by Buzz Aldrin
NEW YORK—Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million. The $2,772,500 paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction, according to Sotheby’s, which handled the sale….
Original Buzz Aldrin Moon Walk Photo Sells for $7,700 at Auction
COPENHAGEN—A series of original NASA photographs from the Apollo missions sold for a total of 1.16 million Danish crowns ($171,831) in an auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday. The 74 privately-owned photographs from the Apollo 8–17 missions included the famous one of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk during the first manned lunar landing in July 1969, which…
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