{"id":84435,"date":"2018-11-03T22:42:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T05:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/neil-armstrong-astronaut-memorabilia-auction-lifts-off"},"modified":"2018-11-03T22:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-11-04T05:42:57","slug":"neil-armstrong-astronaut-memorabilia-auction-lifts-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/neil-armstrong-astronaut-memorabilia-auction-lifts-off","title":{"rendered":"Neil Armstrong astronaut memorabilia auction lifts off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neil-armstrong-astronaut-memorabilia-auction-lifts-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Space enthusiasts stirred by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong\u2019s venture to the moon spent more than $4 million (\u20ac3.5 million) in just the first day of a rare auction of <a href=\"https:\/\/live.ha.com\/live.zx?saleNo=6205&sessionNo=5&ic=LiveAuctionTopBanner-StartingSoon-122815\">Armstrong\u2019s personal collection of memorabilia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On July 20, 1969, Armstrong, who led the Apollo 11 mission, became the first human to walk on the moon.<\/p>\n<p>The auction is the first major sale of his personal collection that comes amid a growing demand for space collectibles as the 50th anniversary of the July 20, 1969 moon landing approaches.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/03\/neil-armstrong-astronaut-memorabilia-auction-lifts-off\">https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2018\/11\/03\/neil-armstrong-astronaut...-lifts-off<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space enthusiasts stirred by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong\u2019s venture to the moon spent more than $4 million (\u20ac3.5 million) in just the first day of a rare auction of Armstrong\u2019s personal collection of memorabilia. On July 20, 1969, Armstrong, who led the Apollo 11 mission, became the first human to walk on the moon. The [\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-84435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435","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=84435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}