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[b]Bonhams Boldy Continues to Grow in the Space History Category[/b] Bonhams is pleased to announce the results of The Space History Sale that took place April 26. Bringing in over $1 million, this lively and growing collecting category continuously attracts new bidders. Bonhams was delighted to have a significant amount of new registrants who bought at high levels, ultimately contributing to one-fifth of this sale total. Matthew Haley, the Specialist for the auction, states, "I am constantly impressed by the growing enthusiasm for this auction category. Each sale attracts more interest and ultimately more buyers. This continues to be a highlight of the Bonhams auction season." A leader of the auction was an extraordinary lunar chart inscribed and signed by a member of each Apollo lunar landing crew including Buzz Aldrin, Alan Bean, Edgar Mitchell and several others. This color lithograph lunar map sold for double its high estimate at $62,500 (pre-sale est. $20,000-30,000). An impressive addition to any collection is a space suit. The Yastreb, "Hawk" in Russian, space suit was a rare Soviet extra-vehicular suit designed for the Soyuz program. This suit sold for $46,250 against a pre-sale estimate of $25,000-35,000. The second suit in the sale was used by the recently retired Shannon Lucid. Lucid set records for the most hours spent in orbit by a non-Russian, and by a woman. Her Sokol KV-2 suit, "Falcon" in Russian, was worn during her MIR training and claimed $35,000 against a pre-sale estimate of $30,000-50,000. The prototype of the a lunar flagpole was designed just three months before Apollo 11, after a request for a flagpole that could support the US flag in an environment with no atmosphere-the surface of the moon. This prototype sold for well over triple the pre-sale estimate for $43,750 (pre-sale est. $8,000-12,000). Rare photographs and models also drew a lot of interest. Two sets of Apollo 11 Hasselblad positives sold for well over their estimates, while a large color photograph of Tranquillity Base, July 20, 1969 sold for $5,250 (pre-sale est. $2,000-3,000) and a signed color photograph of one of the last Earth rise views from lunar orbit during the Apollo 17 mission, titled The Last Earth Rise? sold for $7,500 (pre-sale est. $2,000-3,000). Two models that performed admirably included an early 1970s space plane prototype model, selling for five time its high estimate at $20,000, and the closing lot of the auction, a model of an Angara 3 launch vehicle that sold for $18,750 against a modest pre-sale estimate of $800-1,200.
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