This week's auction, which ended Thursday night, sold items from about 45 collectors, including Steve Jurvetson, the SpaceX andboard member and Silicon Valley investor. In all, 288 items sold for $690,000. A small American flag that traveled to the moon with the Apollo 15 astronauts sold for $31,251. One of the items RR Auction sold this week was a spoon used by astronaut Edgar Mitchell during the Apollo 14 missoin. And RR Auction zeroed in, signing up astronauts and longtime collectors to use their platform to trade artifacts.

Source: CNN July 18, 2020 12:22 UTC