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Senator's space collection: After 30 years championing the Hubble Space Telescope on Capitol Hill, retired Sen. Barbara Mikulski is donating her space memorabilia collection to the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The collection, which includes photos, drawings and models, features signed presentation by two of the space shuttle crews that serviced the Hubble in orbit.
Air and Space reopening: After six months being closed to the public, the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum will reopen half of its Washington, D.C. flagship building on Oct. 14. More than midway into a seven-year renovation, eight reimagined galleries are set to debut including "Destination Moon," focused on the Apollo moon landings, and "Exploring the Planets" with new interactives.
Record-setting space sale: Sotheby's on Tuesday (July 26) set new records for the most valuable space exploration sale ever held and the most-ever paid at auction for a space-flown artifact. In total, the New York gallery's "Buzz Aldrin: American Icon" sale brought it $8.2 million, including the $2.8 million commanded by the Apollo 11 inflight coverall jacket that Aldrin wore on the mission.
Apollo 11 Flight Plan: Relaunched: Fifty-three years after its pages were used to land the first astronauts on the moon, NASA's Apollo 11 flight plan has been reconstructed from the ground up. RelaunchSpace found the original fonts, recreated the graphics and laid out every page to be identical to the 1969 original, so that "Apollo 11 Flight Plan: Relaunched" would appeal to every space fan.
Aldrin artifact auction: The pen that saved the Apollo 11 moon landing and a jacket that was worn during the mission are among the artifacts that Sotheby's is auctioning from the personal collection of astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The July 26th "Buzz Aldrin: American Icon" sale will feature items spanning Aldrin's NASA career, from his spacewalks aboard Gemini 12 to his moonwalk 53 years ago this week.
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