re: Buzz Aldrin putting his watches up for auction

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outside space

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Good shite good shite

No they won't

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Maybe he wants to control what happens to them and not have them scavenged by distant relatives and hangers on when he dies.

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He had to sue his own kids a while back over financial issues

The watches I buy at Wal-Mart have been closer to the moon than Ole Buzz.

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Have they been to space?

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I have a watch that has been to space.

I told this story before, but this was told directly to me, during dinner among six people, by the astronaut Walt Cunningham, who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 7, which was the first manned Apollo space flight after the Apollo 1 disaster.

He purchased a duplicate Omega Speedmaster and when he turned in the watch to NASA, it was the one that didn't go to space. It took more than a decade and a young archivist who noted the serial number was not matching up to what it should have been. He was contacted by NASA and told to return the one that had gone to space or else deal with the consequences. Grudgingly, he returned the priceless watch and now it's somewhere buried deep in the bowels of NASA down in Houston.