The jacket that was worn by Buzz Aldrin on the 1969 Apollo 11 space flight, which made him the second man to walk on the moon, ended up exceeding expectations and had its auction made for US$ 2.8 million, that is, R$ 15 million at the current exchange rate, on the last day 26 of July. Aldrin is the only crew member still alive.
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The piece, which has patches with Aldrin's name and also the Apollo 11 logo, is the space artifact. most valuable American jacket of all time and the most expensive jacket ever sold at auction, according to Sotheby's. The auction house was estimating that the jacket previously sold for between $1 million and $2 million.
This was the only time that a suit that was used during the first Moon landing mission was made available to be private property, according to Sotheby's, as the Smithsonian owns the jackets that were worn by Aldrin's crewmates Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins.
At the present time, the record for the most valuable American space item ever sold at auction was a bag of lunar dust whose price was estimated at US$ 1.8 million, which corresponds to almost R$ 10 million, in the year of 2017. As for a jacket, the most expensive that had been auctioned so far is the red leather one that Michael Jackson wore in the Thriller video, which was also sold for US$ 1.8 million (almost R$ 10 million) in 2011, according to the Guinness World Records book Records.
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