NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced One Giant Leap: Celebrating Space Exploration 50 Years After Apollo 11, which will include nearly 200 artifacts across NASA missions of the Sixties and Seventies including the Gemini and Apollo programs. The sale’s highlight is The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book (estimate: $7- 9 million), which was used by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to navigate the lunar module Eagle onto the surface of the moon in July 1969. The Book includes traces of moon dust and almost 150 handmade notes and annotation including the Eagle’s coordinates on the lunar surface within moments of landing, marking the first writing by a human being on an extraterrestrial body. Because future manned missions will be more fully digitized, there will likely never be created a more significant document of space exploration history.

Additional lots include a Large United States Flag Flown Aboard Apollo 10 (estimate: $25,000 – 35,000), a Camera Lens and Dust Brush Used on the Lunar Surface During the Apollo 14 Mission (estimate: $125,000– 175,000), and a Large Lunar Landscape Planning Chart Dating from May 1971 (estimate: $40,000 – 60,000). The chart is inscribed with mission details by a member of every Apollo landing crew and is the most outstanding example produced for NASA during the Apollo program.

Items from One Giant Leap including the Timeline Book on public view at Christie’s New York from July 11-17 with a special lecture by Apollo 13 astronaut Fred Haise from 6 – 8pm on July 10. Also being offered is The Moon and Beyond: Meteorites From The Stifler Collection, an online sale of rocks from space. Open for bidding from July 11 – 26, the sale includes the ‘Massive Triangular Specimen of the Moon’ (Estimate $100,000 – $130,000), as well as a ‘Rare Lunar Sphere’ (Estimate: $35,000- $55,000). The ‘Massive Triangular Specimen’ is a triangularly-shaped end piece that reveals both interior and exterior of Moon rock.

Christina Geiger, Head of Books & Manuscripts, explains, “It’s an absolute thrill to offer the chance for bidders to take home a piece of space exploration history, whether it is an object that has been to the Moon and back or the charts used to navigate there. These objects stand as unique witnesses to the early years of space exploration and to one of the most glorious adventures in human history.”