First 'space selfie' sells for nearly 6,000 pounds at auction

March 01, 2015 13:55

The first 'selfie' taken in space by NASA astronaut Buzz Aldrin in 1966 has fetched almost 6,000 pounds - ten times its estimate - at an auction here. The space selfie was part of a collection of 700 vintage NASA photographs that sold for a total of 489,440 pounds at London's Bloomsbury Auction.

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