Original Buzz Aldrin Moon Walk Photo Sells for $7,700 at Auction

A young boy walks past a photograph of Buzz Aldrin on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 11 mission at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in New York on July 17, 2019. Lucas Jackson/Reuters

COPENHAGEN—A series of original NASA photographs from the Apollo missions sold for a total of 1.16 million Danish crowns ($171,831) in an auction in Copenhagen on Wednesday.

The 74 privately-owned photographs from the Apollo 8–17 missions included the famous one of Buzz Aldrin’s moon walk during the first manned lunar landing in July 1969, which sold for 52,000 crowns.