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Top 100 highlights of the 2021 auction year

Posted on January 14, 2022 by Mike Hanlon

Our annual highlights of the auction year reached a crescendo in this post-2021 coverage - the most explosive growth, the most ridiculous lots, and dozens of examples of the most expensive items in history ... not to mention the most bizarre lots we've yet seen. The most intriguing of them all was the sale by tender of (most of) the cars from the 2015 movie, “Mad Max: Fury Road.”

The 2021 auction year was quite extraordinary, with almost all auction categories reporting unprecedented levels of participation and sales.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Art, Most-Expensive, World’s Most Expensive, Video Games, Valuable-Scientific-Manuscripts, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Patek Philippe, NFT (Non-fungible token), Christie’s, Sotheby’s, RM-Sothebys, Gooding & Co, Bonhams, Artcurial, McLaren, Ferrari, Shelby, AC Cobra, Mercedes-Benz, Delage, Aston Martin, Baseball, basketball, NFL, Poly Auction Beijing, Poly Auction HK, Bugatti, Tim Berners-Lee, Audemars Piguet, Memory Lane Auctions, Heritage Auctions, Goldin Auctions, Lamborghini, Superman, Spider-Man, ComicConnect.com, Banksy, Lelands Auctions, Stutz, Rock Island Auctions, Stacks Bowers Auctions, Mile High Auctions, Macallan Whisky, Porsche, Rolex, Lexus, Space Suit, mario bros.

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Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 EVA Cuff Checklist poised to set auction records

Posted on October 20, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

It’s coming up 50 years since mankind last set foot on the Moon. In perhaps the most privileged activity ever available to our species, just 12 human beings have done it, the first being Neil Armstrong on 21 July 1969 and the last was Gene Cernan on 11… Continue reading Gene Cernan’s Apollo 17 EVA Cuff Checklist poised to set auction records→

Space and sci-fi memorabilia breaking records at auction

Posted on July 27, 2021 by Mike Hanlon

The Apollo Guidance Computer is extremely rare, was very expensive to produce, and an example of state-of-the-art design and fabrication of the period - perhaps even more significantly, it is the common ancestor of every computer.

Last week was a big week in space exploration, with the 52nd anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, and some significant sales of space memorabilia, including US$746,000 for an Apollo Guidance Computer (the brain behind the Lunar landing), $119,700 for a rare 1962 Krechet-94 (“Gyrfalcon”) lunar spacesuit, $63,000 for Neil Armstrong’s annotated Lunar Surface Flown Checklist and $250,000 for a Type-2 Phaser pistol from the original 1967 TV Space Opera, Star Trek.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Sotheby’s, Space Suit, Heritage Auctions, Apollo 11, Apollo 50th Anniversary

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ESA seeks ways to make shared spacesuit underwear more hygienic

Posted on May 13, 2021 by David Szondy

ESA is working on ways to make sharing unwashed underwear used in spacesuits a bit less horrible. The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) will work with the Vienna Textile Lab on the BACTeRMA project to test textiles with improved anti-bacterial properties for… Continue reading ESA seeks ways to make shared spacesuit underwear more hygienic→

The hunt for spacesuit materials that can resist destructive lunar dust

Posted on October 29, 2020 by David Szondy

An ESA initiative is working with French engineering company Comex, the German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research, and the Austrian Space Forum to look for new combinations of materials to create spacesuits and other equipment that are more resi… Continue reading The hunt for spacesuit materials that can resist destructive lunar dust→

Future NASA astronauts may rely on electron beams to clean spacesuits

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Anthony Wood

Blasting spacesuits with a beam of electrons could cause jagged, abrasive particles of moon dust to leap right off them, according to a newly published study. Apollo-era astronauts noted that the sticky, troublesome nature of lunar dust caused equipmen… Continue reading Future NASA astronauts may rely on electron beams to clean spacesuits→

NASA’s Perseverance rover to test future spacesuit materials on Mars

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Anthony Wood

When NASA’s Perseverance rover touches down on Mars in February 2021, it will carry with it the first-ever spacesuit samples to land on the Red Planet. The materials will be exposed to the brutal high-radiation environment to test how future astronaut-… Continue reading NASA’s Perseverance rover to test future spacesuit materials on Mars→

Space suit from “2001: A Space Odyssey” could break records at auction

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Mike Hanlon

The Spacesuit from 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM, 1968) is going to auction

The value of movie memorabilia is invariably linked to the importance of the film it comes from, with key props from the greatest films of all time always bringing auction prices commensurate with their time in the spotlight.

Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle

Tags: Auction, Julien’s Auctions, Space Suit

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ESA unveils concept spacesuit glove of the future

Posted on April 15, 2020 by David Szondy

ESA has taken the wraps off its concept for the spacesuit glove of the future. Derived from the space agency’s two-year Pextex project aimed at finding new spacesuit materials, the mockup glove designed by the Comex company and designer Agatha Medioni … Continue reading ESA unveils concept spacesuit glove of the future→

Living On The Moon: The Challenges

Posted on December 12, 2017 by Steven Dufresne

Invariably when we write about living on Mars, some ask why not go to the Moon instead? It’s much closer and has a generous selection of minerals. But its lack of an atmosphere adds to or exacerbates the problems we’d experience on Mars. Here, therefore, is a fun thought experiment about that age-old dream of living on the Moon.

Inhabiting Lava Tubes

The Moon has even less radiation protection than Mars, having practically no atmosphere. The lack of atmosphere also means that more micrometeorites make it to ground level. One way to handle these issues is to bury structures under …read more

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