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Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket
American · maker unknown
The Beta cloth jacket Buzz Aldrin wore on the journey to the Moon, sold at Sotheby's in 2022 for $2.77 million, the most paid for an American flown artefact.
- Date
- Flown July 1969
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Record
Aldrin wore the jacket on the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. It is the only flown Apollo 11 garment in private hands; the crew's other garments are in the National Air and Space Museum. Sotheby's sold it in New York on 26 July 2022, in its 'Buzz Aldrin: American Icon' sale, to a telephone bidder for $2,772,500 after nearly ten minutes of bidding.
- Culture
- American
- Medium
- Beta cloth
- Origin
- United States
Sources
- A
collectSPACE, "Buzz Aldrin's moon-flown Apollo 11 jacket sells for record $2.8 million at Sotheby's" (26 July 2022)
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