Buzz Aldrin’s moon jacket sells for $2.8 million

The jacket that NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin wore for the first moon landing sold at a Sotheby’s auction on Wednesday for $2,772,500.

Sotheby’s said the jacket was Aldrin’s inflight coverall jacket, worn by him during his journey to the moon aboard Apollo 11, where he was the second astronaut to walk on the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong.

The white jacket is adorned with the Apollo 11 mission emblem on a patch on the left side below Aldrin’s name tag. On the left sleeve in an American flag. It is one of several items Aldrin has offered from his personal possessions for auction.

According to Deutsche Welle, the jacket is composed of Beta cloth, a fire resistant material NASA used in spacesuits after a fire killed three astronauts aboard Apollo 1 in 1967.

The auction house did not identify the high bidder but said that he had won after a lengthy bidding session between several interested parties.

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