Jen Young noticed This CNN Story that says flight document carried to the surface of the moon during the first lunar landing on July 20, 1969, and signed by astronaut Buzz Aldrin, fetched nearly a quarter of a million dollars after an all-day auction on Saturday, a spokeswoman for the Swann Galleries said.
Highlight of the auction was a “Data Card Book,” essentially a navigational notebook that also bears smudges of moon dust that was the property of Aldrin. The 8 by 10.5 inches (20 by 27 cm) document containing 16 numbered pages on 11 loose leaves sold for $222,500 to a unnamed Pennsylvania dealer specializing in 19th-century art and autographs.
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