![[APOLLO XI] ALDRIN, Edwin E. ("Buzz"). Originial embroidered Mission Patch inscribed and signed along bottom edge ("Flown on Apollo XI Buzz Aldrin"), n.d., 5 in. x 6 in., showing an American Bald Eagle descending on the lunar surface, an olive branch in its talons.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2003/NYR/2003_NYR_01318_0171_000(070543).jpg?w=1)
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[APOLLO XI] ALDRIN, Edwin E. ("Buzz"). Originial embroidered Mission Patch inscribed and signed along bottom edge ("Flown on Apollo XI Buzz Aldrin"), n.d., 5 in. x 6 in., showing an American Bald Eagle descending on the lunar surface, an olive branch in its talons.
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[APOLLO XI] ALDRIN, Edwin E. ("Buzz"). Originial embroidered Mission Patch inscribed and signed along bottom edge ("Flown on Apollo XI Buzz Aldrin"), n.d., 5 in. x 6 in., showing an American Bald Eagle descending on the lunar surface, an olive branch in its talons.
A FLOWN APOLLO XI MISSION PATCH. Born to a mother whose maiden name was Moon and a father who studied rocket science under Robert Goddard, Buzz Aldrin seemed predestined for the adventure of lunar exploration. After graduating from West Point in 1951, he served as a fighter pilot in Korea where he flew 66 combat missions in an F-86 (downing two MIG-15s). In 1963 he earned a doctorate in Astronautics from MIT and the techniques for manned space rendezvous that he described in his thesis were used on all the manned Apollo missions. In October 1963, NASA invited him to join the space program, and at 11:16 p.m. EDT on the night of 20 July 1969, he was the second human being to walk on the moon. The Apollo XI crew fulfilled President Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth. Among the materials they carried back with them in their small command module was 47 pounds of lunar rocks and soil, and this striking mission patch, depicting an American bald eagle about to set its talons (clutching an olive branch) onto the lunar surface.
A FLOWN APOLLO XI MISSION PATCH. Born to a mother whose maiden name was Moon and a father who studied rocket science under Robert Goddard, Buzz Aldrin seemed predestined for the adventure of lunar exploration. After graduating from West Point in 1951, he served as a fighter pilot in Korea where he flew 66 combat missions in an F-86 (downing two MIG-15s). In 1963 he earned a doctorate in Astronautics from MIT and the techniques for manned space rendezvous that he described in his thesis were used on all the manned Apollo missions. In October 1963, NASA invited him to join the space program, and at 11:16 p.m. EDT on the night of 20 July 1969, he was the second human being to walk on the moon. The Apollo XI crew fulfilled President Kennedy's 1961 pledge to land a man on the moon and return him safely to earth. Among the materials they carried back with them in their small command module was 47 pounds of lunar rocks and soil, and this striking mission patch, depicting an American bald eagle about to set its talons (clutching an olive branch) onto the lunar surface.