⁍ This week’s auction sold items from about 45 collectors, including Steve Jurvetson, the SpaceX and Tesla (TSLA) board member and Silicon Valley investor.
⁍ Among the most valuable items on the block was a Robbins Medallion, a commemorative coin minted for astronauts on voyages from Apollo 7 on.
⁍ A small American flag that traveled to the moon with the Apollo 15 astronauts sold for $31,251.

– A rocket engine that carried Neil Armstrong to the moon and a spoon used by Edgar Mitchell during the Apollo 14 missoin sold at auction this week for a combined price of $690,000. The items were among 288 auctioned off by New York-based RR Auction, which CNN notes is now a destination for space fans with “disposable income” who are “obsessed with preserving (and monetizing) pieces of NASA history.” “Most of the people that purchase these things are engineers and in to computers and the internet and now have disposable income,” Bobby Livingston, RR Auction’s executive vice president of public relations, says. “They’re fascinated by men walking on the moon.” Among the most valuable items was a Robbins Medallion, a commemorative coin minted for astronauts on voyages from Apollo 7 on. It sold for $50,907—about 10 times more than expected. A small American flag that astronaut Dave Scott carried in his pocket while he walked on the moon during NASA’s Apollo 15 mission in 1971, which was expected to fetch $2,500, sold for more than $30,000. A small American flag that traveled to the moon with the Apollo 15 astronauts sold for $31,251. The auction house started as a small dealer focused on historical manuscripts and autographs. In recent years, it’s hosted the

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