The US astronaut wore the inflight jacket onboard his historic trip to the Moon in 1969.
Buzz Aldrin spent most of the July 1969 mission to the Moon wearing the inflight jacket
Adorned with a US flag and Nasa logo, Mr Aldrin wore the white inflight jacket while speeding through space in Apollo 11's command module Columbia.The jacket was sold by Sotheby's and becomes the most valuable American space artefact ever sold at auction, Mr Aldrin spent the majority of the six-day journey in space wearing the inflight jacket, changing out of it only mid-way through to swap into a pressure suit for stepping onto the lunar surface itself.After spending over 21 hours on the Moon, he and Neil Armstrong then returned to the Apollo mission and changed back into their inflight jackets, which he described as "much more comfortable" in a note accompanying the item.
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