Visiting the moon and finding out what kind of cheese it is made from is every child’s dream. Growing up, one realises how unlikely it is that that dream would ever come true and searches for more realistic ways to make their astronomer dream come true.

The Bonhams Space Sale offers an opportunity for all of us to make our dreams come true by getting a little closer to the Moon. This isn’t accomplished by giving us our own spacesuit and a ticket to the Moon but the Space Sale will auction off pieces of lunar history on the 16th of July this year. In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing, Bonhams will be auctioning items that were possessions of astronauts or related to lunar missions in some way.

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The historic landing on moon and that famous moment when the stripes and stars unfurled on lunar surface is an image that is etched in the memory of humanity (thanks largely to television, which played it over and over). It seems now that there are more than a few takers for some of the artifacts and items that travelled on the Apollo 11 to accomplish that monumental feat. Most of these collectibles will go under the hammer very shortly and the expected price for these is sure to have many interested in the bidding.
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