Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 flight jacket fetches $2.8m

In this file photo taken on July 21, 2022, Buzz Aldrin's Inflight Coverall Jacket, worn on his Apollo 11 mission to the Moon, is displayed during a media preview at Sotheby’s in New York. (Photo: AFP)

Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's flight jacket, which he wore on the historic mission to the moon in 1969, was sold for about US$2.8 million in New York, auction house Sotheby's said.

The jacket front displays NASA's logo and the Apollo 11 mission emblem, which is slightly below Aldrin's name tag.