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Buzz Aldrin’s moon-flown Apollo 11 jacket sells for record $2.8 million at Sotheby’s
July 26, 2022 — A jacket worn to the moon by astronaut Excitement Aldrin established a new report for the most-at any time paid out at auction for a flown-in-place artifact, when Aldrin’s pen credited with saving the Apollo 11 mission failed to market. The bidding for Aldrin’s inflight coverall jacket opened at $500,000 at Sotheby’s in New York on Tuesday (July 26). One particular of 70 heaps being presented from the 92-12 months-previous moonwalker’s collection, the glass-woven (Beta fabric) jacket was donned by Aldrin when he wasn’t wearing his Apollo 11 spacesuit on the way to and from the moon 53 yrs in the past this month. “This is…