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Washington .- The family of Neil Armstrong will auction through the Heritage Auctions home the personal collection of the astronaut the first to pose the foot on the moon today 49 years with the mission Apollo 11 .
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The collection, with more than 2000 objects, will be sold in three auctions: the first November 1 and 2, the second on May 9 and 10, 2019 and the third in November 2019, according to Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, Texas.
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Among the items that will go up for auction, there are silver medallions (including an "extremely rare" gold) of NASA commemorating the Apollo 11 mission that flew into the spaceship with Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins .
Also a centennial flag of the Purdue University of Indiana (1869-1969), Armstrong's alma mater, which the astronaut took with him on the moon.
In addition, parts of the propeller and wing of the Wright Brothers aircraft, the first powered plane that in 1903 was able to fly, which Armstrong also carried in Apollo 11.
Also, in the lots contained a gold lapel pin that Armstrong was carrying on the Gemini 8 mission in 1966, his first flight into space and a cap boy scout when he was a kid.
Heritage Auctions correspondence that includes a document that reveals NASA's planning of the arrival at the moon.
"There will be objects that will fly, autographed objects, objects of historical significance, objects that will make you think, objects that will make you laugh, objects that will scratch your head," says Mark , one of the children of the astronaut
I think (Armstrong) would be happy to be remembered as part of a program that has shown that incredible things can be accomplished when people come together with a common purpose
Armstrong, who died in 2012 at the age of 82, marked history by becoming the first human to walk on the lunar surface on July 20, 1969 and we remember the famous phrase that he pronounced at that time
. "It's a small step for a man, but a big step for humanity," says the astronaut.
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