Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Return Bag
- Maker
- Neil Armstrong / NASA
- Year
- 1969
- Rank
- 45 of 100
Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Return Bag
Apollo 11 Lunar Sample Return Bag by Neil Armstrong / NASA (1969) is ranked 45 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $1,800,000 on 20 July 2017. The only privately-owned object containing verified Apollo 11 lunar material.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The only privately-owned object containing verified Apollo 11 lunar material.
Armstrong's contingency lunar-sample-return bag with confirmed Apollo 11 moon dust
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $1,800,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 20 July 2017
Sotheby's New York. $1.8M.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08