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Space enthusiasts will soon the chance to a piece of space exploration history. Items from Neil Armstrong's personal collection of mementos are to auctioned. Mr Armstrong was the first person to on the moon. A variety of artifacts from the July 20, 1969 lunar landing will under the auctioneer's hammer. These a US flag, a UN flag, state flags and commemorative medallions that were to NASA astronauts. The auction house that the sale will be very popular. It said: "Space is one of the very, very few categories that every single person to be interested in....You show somebody something from the space program, and they fascinated by it."

Neil Armstrong was born, lived and died in the state of Ohio. He his many space souvenirs in his house there. His son, Mark Armstrong, said his father never to him about what he wanted to be with the huge amount of items he had kept. He said: "I don't think he much time thinking about it. He did all the items, so he obviously they were worth saving." Mark and his brother Rick it would be best to auction the items to their father's legacy. They had to many of the items. They also said it was increasingly difficult to correctly identify some things as the number of living people connected to the Apollo 11 mission was decreasing.