Sections of Wright Flyer fabric sold for $175,000 to $112,000. There were all said to have flown at the site of the first controlled powered flight at Kitty Hawk, N.C. in December 1903, as well as ...

This plaque commemorates two of humankind's greatest flight achievements: the first powered, controlled flight of the Wright brothers in December 1903 and the first human lunar landing (Apollo 11) in ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – In a May 9-11 auction that brought in $4.57 million for hundreds of Neil Armstrong’s personal effects, a tiny piece of fabric from the wing of the Wright Brothers ...

Among the items already sold are a gold medal that flew with Armstrong to the moon that nabbed more than $2 million, a piece of cloth from the Wright Brothers’ 1903 Flyer that Armstrong brought ...

BREVARD COUNTY • KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLORIDA – On July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Time, the Apollo 11 crew of Armstrong, Aldrin, and Collins launched toward the Moon. The astronauts were not the ...

A fragment of Wright Flyer wood and fabric flew to the moon with Apollo 11’s Neil Armstrong in 1969. A swatch also accompanied John Glenn into orbit aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1998. Both ...

This is not the first time that fabric from the Wrights' 1903 Flyer has left Earth. In 1969, the Wright family gave Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong pieces of the muslin and a splinter of wood ...

A fragment of Wright Flyer wood and fabric flew to the moon with Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong in 1969. A swatch also accompanied John Glenn into orbit aboard space shuttle Discovery in 1998. Both ...

Apollo 11, the first moon landing mission in July 1969, ... Sign out; RSS. ... had previously documented the Wright Flyer airplane, ...

These two pieces were flown on the Apollo 11 mission and were in the lunar module "Eagle" that landed on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr. The plaque was transferred ...