{"id":14658,"date":"2017-07-21T12:58:53","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14658"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T20:02:17","slug":"apollo-11-lunar-samples-bag-at-sothebys-auction-sells-for-1-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14658","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 11 lunar samples bag at Sotheby’s auction sells for $1.8M"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sotheby’s space memorabilia auction<\/a> (see earlier posting<\/a>) went off on Thursday and there were a number of :\u00a0Apollo 11 moon rock bag sells for $1.8M at Sotheby’s space auction | collectSPACE<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

The most prominent item for sale was the\u00a0Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return<\/em> bag, which was used by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo 11 mission to hold some samples gather soon after landing in case there was a problem and they had to leave the Moon in a hurry. The bag material is embedded wit lunar dust. The collectSPACE article recounts the interesting tale of how the bag, which was once sold for $995, ended up on the auction block and sold for $1,812,500.<\/p>\n

Some other items also went for significant amounts:<\/p>\n

After the lunar sample return bag, the next highest amount commanded by the\u00a0173 lots Sotheby’s auctioned Thursday<\/a> was $275,000 for the flown flight plan used by the crew on the 1970 Apollo 13 mission.<\/p>\n

Nice to see that the Chesley Bonestell illustration for a Wernher von Braun book went for $125,000.<\/p>\n

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\n“Stone Architecture on Mars, Demonstrating Mars’ Two-Thirds Less Gravity than Earth’s”- Chesley Bonestell. “10\u00bd by 11 inch oil on artist’s board, signed “Chesley Bonestell” lower right. Verso stamped “Chesley Bonestell”, titled on verso in pen in Bonestell’s hand, with additional pencil notation reading “In 1985 I realized that the columns should be 1\u00be times thicker (measure closest col. at base) than they are in the ptg.”<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Sotheby’s space memorabilia auction (see earlier posting) went off on Thursday and there were a number of :\u00a0Apollo 11 moon rock bag sells for $1.8M at Sotheby’s space auction | collectSPACE. The most prominent item for sale was the\u00a0Apollo 11 Contingency Lunar Sample Return bag, which was used by Neil Armstrong on the Apollo … Continue reading Apollo 11 lunar samples bag at Sotheby’s auction sells for $1.8M<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-space-collecting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3Oq","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14598,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14598","url_meta":{"origin":14658,"position":0},"title":"Space Exploration auction at Sotheby’s in New York","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Sotheby's\u00a0in New York is holding a\u00a0Space Exploration auction\u00a0that is Sotheby\u2019s first Space Exploration-themed auction since our two groundbreaking Russian Space History sales in the 1990s. 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