Neil Armstrong gear makes $US7.5 million

Items belonging to Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, have sold for more than $US7.4 million at auction.

Apollo 11 ID plate sold at auction

Neil Armstrong's spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11 has sold at auction for $US468,500. (AAP)

Memorabilia that belonged to the first man to set foot on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has fetched more than $US7.4 ($A10.3 million) at auction.

Dallas-based Heritage Auctions says the item that sold for the highest price, $US468,500, at Saturday's auction was Armstrong's spacecraft ID plate from Apollo 11's lunar module Eagle.

Also sold were a fragment from the propeller and a section of the wing from the Wright brothers' Flyer, the first heavier-than-air self-powered aircraft, which each sold for $US275,000.

The flight suit Armstrong wore aboard Gemini 8, the 1966 mission that performed the first docking of two spacecraft in flight, brought the astronaut's family $US109,375.

Meanwhile, in a separate auction, a gold-coloured Navy aviator's helmet once owned by John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, sold for $US46,250.


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