Buzz Aldrin is an American former astronaut, engineer, and fighter pilot. He made three spacewalks as a pilot of the 1966 Gemini 12 mission. As the Lunar Module Eagle pilot on the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, he and mission commander Neil Armstrong were the first two people to land on the Moon.
He was born on January 20, 1930 (age 92 years), in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, United States.
Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon’s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.
The highest bidder paid $2,772,500 for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket. This jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction.
The unidentified winning bidder had participated by phone and won against several others in bidding that lasted almost 10 minutes.
The jacket displays Aldrin’s name tag on the left breast above the Apollo 11 mission emblem and the American flag on the left shoulder.
It is made of a fire-resistant material known as Beta cloth that was incorporated into spacesuits in response to the fire that killed three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 in 1967.
