{"id":142957,"date":"2022-07-27T13:25:11","date_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/buzz-aldrin-flight-to-moon-jacket-sells-at-auction-for-2-8m"},"modified":"2022-07-27T13:25:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-27T18:25:11","slug":"buzz-aldrin-flight-to-moon-jacket-sells-at-auction-for-2-8m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/buzz-aldrin-flight-to-moon-jacket-sells-at-auction-for-2-8m","title":{"rendered":"Buzz Aldrin Flight-to-moon Jacket Sells At Auction for $2.8M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/buzz-aldrin-flight-to-moon-jacket-sells-at-auction-for-2-8m.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York (AP) \u2014 Buzz Aldrin\u2019s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon\u2019s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>The $2,772,500 paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction, according to Sotheby\u2019s, which handled the sale. The unidentified winning bidder, who participated by phone, outlasted several others in a bidding that spanned almost 10 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (AP) \u2014 Buzz Aldrin\u2019s jacket worn on his historic first mission to the moon\u2019s surface in 1969 has been auctioned off to a bidder for nearly $2.8 million. The $2,772,500 paid for the Apollo 11 Inflight Coverall Jacket is the highest for any American space-flown artifact sold at auction, according to Sotheby\u2019s, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}