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First Moon Landing Manual Could Fetch $9 Million at Auction

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 06 2019, @11:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the expensive-documentation dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956

The detailed manual used by U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon in 1969 is going up for auction in July and could fetch up to $9 million, New York auctioneers Christie's said on Wednesday.

The 44-page ring-bound Apollo 11 lunar module timeline book details every procedure that was needed to undock, land and rendezvous the Eagle with its Columbia command module when Armstrong and Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

"These are step-by-step instructions that cover the entire portion of the Eagle flight. It is a series of instructions on everything from 'don your helmets' to 'check your power system,'" Christina Geiger, head of books and manuscripts at Christie's, told Reuters.

Along with technical data, the book, which was carried aboard the Eagle, contains drawings and almost 150 check marks and annotations written in real time by Armstrong and Aldrin.

Since there was no audio or video recording of what happened in the cockpit of the Eagle, the manual is regarded as a unique witness to space history. It also marks the first writing by a human being on another celestial body.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-auction/first-moon-landing-manual-could-fetch-9-million-at-auction-idUSKCN1S749H

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  • (Score: 4, Touché) by Mykl on Tuesday May 07 2019, @12:44AM (1 child)

    by Mykl (1112) on Tuesday May 07 2019, @12:44AM (#839925)

    Anything related to the moon landings got paid by your tax dollars. Why is this in private hands ?

    What are you, some sort of Communist? It's every American politician's right to privatise government activity and personally profit in the process. After all, why else would anyone get into government?

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