February 28, 2011 — You can likely get a slightly used suit at your local thrift store for under $25. But Bonhams will be selling two suits — spacesuits, that is —for a little bit more.
Make that a lot more.
Bonhams in New York will be holding a Space History Sale on May 5 to commemorate the achievements 50 years ago of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, and Alan Shepard, the first American in space on Freedom 7.
According to Arts and Collections International, the sale will include important flight plan sheets, emblems, medallions, hardware, models, lunar surface equipment, and charts and photographs from both the American and Russian space programs. Items from the Forbes collection and from the estate of James E. Webb, a NASA administrator in the 1960s will also be featured.
But highlights include a Russian spacesuit, Sokol K, worn by cosmonaut Alexei Leonov during the historic 1975 Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, estimated to sell for $100,000-150,000, and an Russian spacesuit, Sokol KV-2, used by cosmonaut Gennadi Strekalov on the Soyuz TM 10 during a mission to the Mir space station in 1990, which is estimated to sell for $60,000-80,000.
In addition, an Apollo 14 Maurer Camera will be auctioned off, for an estimated $60,000-$80,000. The camera, from the personal collection of Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth person to walk on the moon, was used to film movies through the Lunar Module Pilot's window during the approach and landing of the Lunar Module.
Click here to see the list of other items being sold.
This will be Bonham’s third space history sale. The first, in July 2009, was the highest-grossing American space history auction ever, and the second in April 2010 including the Neil Armstrong "One small step for a man" inscription which made $152,000.
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Gennadi Strekalev's Sokol KV-2 spacesuit used on Soyuz 10 in 1990 will be auctioned off in May.
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