Buzz Aldrin's Space Toothbrush Among Items Up for Auction

If you’ve got a spare $9,000 laying around, you can make the opening bid on a tootbrush used by Buzz Aldrin during the 1969 voyage to the moon.

The tootbrush and other personal items and documents from the moonwalker are among 300 space artifacts going up for sale this week during New York auction house Bonhams' Space History Sale.

The opening bid is $5,000 for a flashlight covered in Velcro. There are also documents that Aldrin and Neil Armstrong brought on their space flight, including a flight-plan sheet, valued between $15,000 and $20,000, and lunar-landing checklist, which sold for $25,000.  

However, the 83-year-old Aldrin told CollectSPACE.com that the auction items are not from his personal collection. 

"I am not offering any items for sale from my current collection of Apollo 11 articles in the Bonhams auction,” Aldrin wrote. 

Aldrin stated the Apollo 11 items in the auction are those he sold in 2007 at the “instigation of my ex-wife and her daughter who acted as my attorney and business manager,” according to the website. 

Aldrin was divorced from his wife Lois Driggs Cannon in December after 24 years. 

He added he had no intention of selling any more of his Apollo 11 items. 

Bonhams acknowledged that Aldrin’s items in the auction were consigned by someone other than him in a press release, according to the website.