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Bidding starts January 13 on five hundred pieces of space-race memorabilia�including a headset worn by Charlie Duke, capcom for the Apollo 11 mission.

The distance Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled on the moon belies the immensity of their feat, as NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich discovered last week when blogging about scale in the news. In truth, the scale of their accomplishment is so off the charts, it can only fuel our fantasies�not to mention those of Michael Bay.