Buzz Aldrin: American Icon
Buzz Aldrin: American Icon
Property from the Buzz Aldrin Family Trust
Flown to and Used on the Lunar Surface: the broken circuit breaker switch that nearly ended the lives of the Apollo 11 Crew, & the pen that saved them
Auction Closed
July 26, 06:15 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000,000 - 2,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
LUNAR SURFACE FLOWN Brushed Aluminum Duro "Rocket" black felt-tipped pen (5 1/2 inches long), cap with integrated pocket clip, pocket clip stamped with "ROCKET", Velcro swatch adhered to pen cap.
[TOGETHER WITH]:
LUNAR SURFACE FLOWN Black plastic Engine Arm circuit breaker switch, 1/2 inch long, head of switch approx. 3/8 inch in diameter, base of switch jagged from an old break.
With a typed provenance letter from BUZZ ALDRIN.
*This lot will be accompanied by a MIRAImage™ NFT, a unique digital identifier linked to its physical object using novel microscopic 3D scanning technology and advanced mathematical techniques that extract the object's identifying “DNA.” The NFT will be minted by MIRA to the Ethereum blockchain, forever recording these micron-level details, along with the the object's associated metadata and provenance information for future proof of authenticity.
Directly from the Personal Collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin