MOON : ''FIRST LANDING MANUAL AUCTION''

First Moon Landing manual could fetch $ 9 million at auction.
The detailed manual used by astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon in 1969 is going up for auction in July and could fetch up to $9 million New York's auctioneers  Christie's  said on Wednesday.

The 44-page ring-bound  Apollo 11 lunar module timeline book details every procedure that was needed to unlock, land and rendezvous the Eagle with the Columbia command module when Armstrong Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon.

''These are step-by-step instruction that cover the entire portion of the Eagle flight.

It is a series of instructions on everything from 'don your helmet' to 'check your power system,''  Christina Geiger, head of books and manuscripts at Christie's, told Reuters. [Agencies]