COLONEL BUZZ ALDRIN - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED 1989 - HFSID 261919
Sale Price $995.00
Reg. $1,200.00
[BUZZ ALDRIN]
Life mask of the second man to walk on the Moon, a unique piece of space
history
Life mask unsigned. 4¼x10x3¾ mask on 5½x4x5½ base. Base has 3¾x2½
brass-colored plate with caption "Buzz Aldrin/Men From Earth/1989". This life
mask is a unique piece of America's, and humanity's, space history. It's a
life mask - a cast, really - taken of Aldrin's face, the second man to walk
on the moon. Buzz Aldrin (born in 1930), a 1951 West Point graduate, had
flown 66 missions in Korea, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross. He flew
F-100s in Germany before persuading the Air Force to send him to M.I.T. for a
doctorate. Although he was turned down for the astronaut program in 1962, Aldrin
was later aboard one Gemini mission (Gemini 12), and became a close
friend of astronaut Ed White, one of the Apollo I astronauts who died in
a launch pad fire. Aldrin and Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong left the
patch from that ill-fated mission on the surface of the Moon. During the
Apollo 11 mission, Aldrin had piloted the Lunar Excursion Module,
Eagle, and became the second man to walk on the Moon. Rear of mask is
slightly chipped. Top of base is slightly scratched in rear (not visible from
front). Otherwise, fine condition.
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