Titusville’s American Space Museum to auction off NASA rocket engine

TITUSVILLE, Fla. — Who wants a NASA rocket engine? Or signed items from astronauts of the Apollo missions? How about a lunar-dust-stained checklist?

It can all be yours at Titusville’s American Space Museum’s online auction. 

The online auction started on Sunday, Jan. 25, and it will end on Valentine’s Day.

One of the items up for bid is a NASA Rocketdyne S-3D rocket engine. This particular engine was not used for any of the early Mercury or Apollo missions. It was used for ballistic missiles.

Some of the other items include:

• Things signed by Apollo astronauts
• Items flown on Apollo missions, like the American flag on the Apollo 15 mission
• Patches from John Young’s space suit from when he was the command module pilot of Apollo 10
• An Apollo 17 checklist that is stained with lunar dust, signed by Cmdr. Gene Cernan
• You can see more items with additional information here