COLONEL BUZZ ALDRIN - EPHEMERA UNSIGNED CIRCA 1966 - HFSID 261940
Price: $260.00
BUZZ ALDRIN
Unsigned souvenir ashtray NASA's Gemini XII mission. Buzz
Aldrin was pilot on this mission.
Unsigned ephemera. 9¾x6½x4½. Ceramic ashtray with "Jim &
Buzz/Nov. 11 1-5, 1966" in gold-colored glaze and "Project/II/Gemini"
in red and blue glaze. Aldrin, born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr. in
Montclair, New Jersey in 1930, was a 1951 West Point graduate who flew 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 (July 20, 1969). Lightly soiled,
otherwise in fine condition.
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