posted 04-18-2024 04:17 PM               

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The lot being offered is one of Neil Armstrong's Apollo 11 Beta cloth patches.

This Apollo 11 Beta Cloth Mission Insignia was originally part of The Armstrong Family Collection. A 9" square cloth with a 3.375" color Apollo 11 mission insignia at center. Beta cloth is a fire proof material woven from teflon coated glass fibres. It was supplied to NASA by the Owens Corning Corporation for use as the outer layer of the Apollo space suits and in-flight garments worn by the astronauts. It is CAG Certified and displayed in a sealed and numbered archival holder. It also includes a Statement of Provenance signed by Neil Armstrong's sons, Rick and Mark who sold this item in 2019.

The reward also includes a numbered copy of "Marketing the Moon" signed by its authors David Meerman Scott, Richard Jurek and by Gene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon, who wrote the foreword. This is copy number 3 of an illustrated, groundbreaking book about the greatest marketing effort of its time. This hardcover book, in limited edition slipcover, chronicles the extraordinary efforts and culture-changing work of the thousands of people who brought us the space age.