The control stick used by astronaut Neil Armstrong in 1969 on the first successful trip to the moon has raised € 324,000 at auction. That is about four times more than auction house Julien’s expected.
Armstrong was the first human to set foot on the moon. That is exactly 51 years ago tomorrow. The control stick of ‘second man’ Buzz Aldrin was also auctioned in California: it went to a new owner for 224,000 euros.
“One small step for man, but a giant leap for mankind”: those words of Neil Armstrong went around the world. We previously made this retrospective view of the first moon landing:
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