News | October 26, 2015 10:10 PM EDT
How much would you pay to own a piece of space history? - CNET
Want an out-of-this-world gift for the space nerd on your holiday list? Then consider a piece of the computer that helped guide the Gemini 3 spacecraft.
A Dallas auction house on Monday began accepting bids for part of the computer that flew with astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young as they orbited the Earth on March 23, 1965. It was NASA's first two-man space mission, and the first to require an on-board computer.
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