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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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SANDY KOZEL

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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ED DANAHUE

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Apollo 8 crew (from left) Frank Borman, William Anders, and James Lovell.

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ALDRIN’S SPACE FLIGHT JACKET AUCTIONED

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NEW YORK (AP) — Buzz Aldrin’s jacket worn on his historic first
mission
to the moon’s 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’s, which handled the sale. The unidentified
winning bidder, who participated by phone, outlasted several
others in a bidding that spanned almost 10 minutes.

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Buzz Aldrin ( Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr.) turned 92 in January.

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APOLLO 11 LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first U.S. lunar landing mission,
was launched on a historic journey to the surface of the moon.

After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into
a lunar orbit on July 19.

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50 Lesser-known Details About the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

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From left: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, the Apollo 11 crew.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 1967

Apollo 1 explosion kills all three crew members in 1967 - New York Daily  News

A launch pad fire during Apollo program tests at Cape Canaveral,
Florida, killed astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward H. White
II, and Roger B. Chaffee. An investigation indicated that a faulty
electrical wire inside the Apollo 1 command module was the
probable cause of the fire. The astronauts, the first Americans
to die in a spacecraft, had been participating in a simulation of
the Apollo 1 launch scheduled for the following month.

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Fire in the spacecraft!': The Apollo 1 tragedy that killed three astronauts  in 1967 - pennlive.com

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