47th anniversary of moon landing

It’s available to check out at 3d.si.edu, and you can explore the module used by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins used in excruciating detail. There is also a full scale test model of the Sputnik-1 satellite that was made in 1957 to test electromagnetic compatibility and interference, before the launch of the actual satellite.

Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, orbited Earth in October 1968. He stepped down from Apollo 11’s lunar module and touched moon.

An original space suit achieved $62,500, double its estimate. It took six hours after landing for Armstrong to first step onto the lunar surface.

July 20, 2016, marked the 47th anniversary of the mankind’s giant leap as it was on this date in 1969 when Nasa astronauts had first landed on the moon. There would be five more successful lunar landings and one unplanned. In the video, Sibrel asks Aldrin to swear on a Bible that he actually landed on the moon, and after the then-72-year-old former astronaut refuses, Sibrel calls him a “coward” and a “liar”. Beregovoy meant to dock in space with the orbiting Soyuz-2, but failed after several complications.

“This was a truly meteoric result for the Space History sale”, said Bonhams’ Director of History of Science and Technology Cassandra Hatton. And on Wednesday, space enthusiasts can literally own a piece of that history, if they can afford it, that is.