The notebook with calculations from the aborted 1970 NASA mission to the Moon fetched $US388,375 at auction.
Apollo 13 notebook fetches $380k
Shortly after Apollo 13 astronauts reported, "Houston, we have had a problem", Commander James Lovell jotted down handwritten calculations in the hope of guiding his crew safely home.
Lovell's calculations in the notebook were critical to identifying the crew's position in space.
"We didn't have the technology back then that we have now," he said. "I didn't even have a calculator to do the arithmetic. I had to ask the people in Houston to double-check my numbers."
Lovell and astronauts Jack Swigert and Fred Haise aborted their mission to the Moon and manoeuvred quickly in space to survive after encountering a critical operating problem aboard the spacecraft's command module.
They had to shift to the lunar module to return home.
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