Sotheby’s is very pleased to announce the inaugural Space Exploration auction, the first since the groundbreaking ꦰRussian Space Hiꦇstory sales of the 1990s. In the intervening decades, the enthusiasm for Space Exploration has greatly increased, and the collecting field in both American and Russian material has grown dramatically.

Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, a live sale will place on 20 July featuring a wide variety of material from both the American & Soviet space programs suited for both new and seasoned collectors - from flown mission artefacts and hardware, items from the personal collections of astronauts & cosmonauts, space photography & signed photographs, maps & charts, si🔯gned books, engineering models & other 3-D objec🉐ts, and much more.

The star lot of the sale is the most important space exploration artefact to ever come to market, the outer decontamination bag used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 to bring back the very first samples ever collected of the moon,­ traces of which remain in the bag. The only such relic available for private owne💝rship, it is exceptionally rare.

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New York | 20 July 2017
On View: 13–20 July 2017

Cassandra Hatton
Vice President, Senior Specialist
Books & Manuscripts
Science & Technology168开奖官方开奖网站查询:
cassandra.hatton@laitexier.com

Artefact from Apollo 11 to Appear at Auction