DALLAS — An Apollo 11 lunar module-flown section of the Wright Flyer’s wing fabric and an Apollo 11-flown piece of the Wright Flyer propeller each sold for $175,000 to share top-lot honors in Heritage Auctions’ Space Exploration Auction featuring The Armstrong Family Collection Part II May 9-11. The fabric brings together the two most important flights of all time—the Wright brothers’ initial flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C., and the first trip to the moon. In a signed letter dated January 26, 1970, that now is at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Neil Armstrong wrote, “I certify that that the wooden and fabric Materials provide by the Air Force Museum were placed aboard Apollo XI and carried to the surface of the Moon by the lunar module Eagle on mankind’s first lunar landing, July 20, 1969.” The $175,000 result on the fabric represented a return five times higher than the estimate and exceeded the estimate on the propeller segment by 150 percent. Armstrong was allowed to retain a portion of the cloth and propeller pieces for his own personal collection; these lots were portions of those allotments. Both prices include the buyer’s premium. A full review of this auction will appear in a future issue.