Earlier this month we learned that some of NASA’s incredibly prized Apollo 11 Moon landing tapes were about to be up for auction. NASA wasn’t selling them, of course, but the tapes had found their way into the hands of an intern who bought them at auction back in the mid-1970s.
At the time of that first story, it was thought the tapes might fetch a price as high as a million dollars. As it turns out, all the hype surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing and first moonwalk proved fortuitous for the seller, and the final price rocketed to an absolutely astounding $1.82 million.
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Former NASA intern rakes in nearly $2 million for Moon landing tapes originally appeared on BGR.com on Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 14:40:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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