Originally from the personal collection of Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Al🌄drin

[Apollo 11]

Buzz Aldrin's Crew Signed Insurance Cover

A color-cacheted Apollo 11 Life Insurance Cover, 6^1/2 x 3^1/2 in., 8 cent Apollo 8 Earthrise "In the Beginning" stamp, cancellation stamp dated July 20, 1969 at Houston, Texas. Cachet featuring two astronauts on the lunar surface with the EASEP. Numbered on verso by Aldrin with his identifier number "BA17." Signed NEIL ARMSTRON🎉G, BUZZ ALDRIN, and MICHAEL COLLINS in blank field right. Cover mounted between paragraphs of a typed 8.5 inch x 11 inch provenance letter signed by Buzz Aldrin. 

SIGNED by NEIL ARMSTRONG,🌠 MICHAEL COLLINS, and෴ BUZZ ALDRIN prior to their Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.

WITH provenance letter frﷺom BUZZ ALDRIN on his letterhead, which reads in full:

"This Manned Spacecraft Center Stamp Club postal cover with a lunar exploration scene and a small Apollo 11 emblem cachet is one of the "insurance covers" signed by the Apollo 11 crew prior to our launch in July 1969. Since we were unable to obtain adequate life insurance due to the high risk nature of being an astronaut, we signed this group of covers and evenly distributed them to our families for safe keeping while we performed our mission. If an unfortunate event prevented our safe return, the covers would have provided a limited financial means of support to our families.

The cover displayed above has been in my private collection since 1969 and has an identifier of BA17 written on the reverse side. It was signed by the Apollo 11 crew - Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and myself prior to launch. The cover was postmarked on the lunar landing day of Apollo 11 at Houston, Texas, on July 20, 1969. Just a few hours after landing, Neil Armstrong and I became the first humans to walk on another celestial body - the Moon."