BUZZ ALDRIN`S NASA FLIGHT SUIT, USED BY HIM IN TRAINING FOR APOLLO 11

Lot 23
10.09.2024 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 23 | BUZZ ALDRIN'S NASA FLIGHT SUIT, USED BY HIM IN TRAINING FOR APOLLO 11
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$ 100 000 – 150 000
BUZZ ALDRIN'S NASA FLIGHT SUIT, USED BY HIM IN TRAINING FOR APOLLO 11
KINGS POINT MFG. CO., [FAYETTEVILLE, NC], C.1966
Type K2-B light-weight one-piece flight suit, with Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 mission patches, USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School patch and exterior leather name tag reading “Buzz Aldrin / NASA-MSC”. Signed by Aldrin above name tag. With his accompanying provenance letter.

“This is the only flight suit of mine to exist in private hands from this most important time period in my career and space exploration.” — Buzz Aldrin

Flight suit worn by Buzz Aldrin while training for the Apollo 11 mission and across all the major accomplishments of his career. It was also worn for Gemini 12 and as Commandant of the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base (Aldrin's first post-NASA appointment).

Buzz Aldrin is the most famous and important living man in the history of space exploration. On Gemini 12 in 1966, he set the record for the longest spacewalk at 2 hours and 20 minutes. And on Apollo 11, he and Neil Armstrong became the first human beings to set foot on the Moon.

This flight suit is unique in that, as Aldrin himself observes, it followed him across the major accomplishments of his NASA career—from training for both the Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 missions to commanding the US Air Force Test Pilot School. Aldrin writes in the accompanying 2006 letter, “This is the only flight suit of mine to exist in private hands from this most important time period in my career and space exploration.”

On the left and right shoulders, respectively, are sewn his Gemini 12 and Apollo 11 mission parches, both sitting below patches displaying his colonel rank insignia. The chest features a patch for the Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Base (formerly named the Aerospace Research Pilot School) and Aldrin’s leather Velcro name patch above which Aldrin has added his signature. The golden desert-tan flight suit is additionally distinctive as its color contrasts the blue variants commonly worn by NASA pilots.
62 in. (157.5 cm.)




Provenance

Buzz Aldrin (b.1930); Profiles in History, Beverly Hills, 25 July 2006, lot 545.
Acquired at the above sale by the late owner.
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