After Apollo 11, I sent launch and recovery envelopes to
Buzz Aldrin but, as expected, I received back autopen signatures (the crew was
inundated with thousands of autograph requests). Twenty years later, in 1989, Buzz was kind enough to inscribe for
free an Apollo 11 crew litho to my young son Adam. However, he soon started
charging increasing autograph fees for signatures. I decided to have him sign a few key items in
2000 since by then Armstrong had stopped giving autographs, as did Mike Collins
for a while. So I sent my Apollo 11 flight plan and press kit, as well as a
lunar orbit map, paying $100 each. I thought that was expensive at the time,
but at the most recent Spacefest Aldrin’s base fee was $600 per signature—and
there was still a line to get his autograph!
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