Equipment from the Apollo 11 mission that landed on the Moon is up for auction

And prices can exceed $2 million

The huge brokerage company Sotheby’s has announced that it is auctioning off a collection of objects and memorabilia from NASA ‘s Apollo 11 mission , which landed on the moon in 1969. Specifically, the objects to be sold were kept by American engineer and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin .

In case you don’t know, he is the second man in history to walk on the Moon, as part of the aforementioned mission, which was the first manned to reach the surface of Earth’s natural satellite.

Among the auction items is the jacket that Aldrin wore in space during the mission, while not in his space suit. Also “in the hammer” will be the part of the broken switch that almost trapped Aldrin and Neil Armstrong on the Moon and the pen Aldrin used to save them. The broken switch piece and Duro brand marker are expected to fetch between one and two million dollars, or possibly even beyond that range.

Aldrin’s jacket is expected to sell for a similar price, and is the only piece of clothing from the Apollo 11 mission that one will be able to acquire privately, for a not inconsiderable sum of course. The jacket appears in many famous photos from the mission, except for those where Aldrin is on the Moon, where he was required to wear his special suit.

In case you’re curious, the spacesuits of the two astronauts who stepped on the moon will remain at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

The auction will end on July 25th and more information can be found by clicking here.