Nike Moon Shoes are from 1972 which was the first year of Nike.

A pair have now sold for $437,500. Nike Moon Shoes got their nickname because the impressions that the Waffle Soles left on the track resembled the footprints that astronauts left on the Moon. Social media and advertising cookies of third parties are used to offer you social media functionalities and personalized ads. The Nike Waffle 'Moon Shoe' was one of the first to be created by Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman and was designed for runners at the 1972 Olympic trials. Nike asks you to accept cookies for performance, social media and advertising purposes. Nike Sportswear design noticed parallels between the origin of the “moon shoe” and Breaking2, the company’s 2017 attempt to break the two-hour marathon barrier with the Nike Zoom Vaporfly 4%.

The design is a Frankenstein-ed mashup of Nike innovations past and present, most notably the brand’s Moon Shoe (hence the “Moon” in the name) runners from …

Astronauts walked on the Moon in 1969. The New York auction house is allowing collectors to … A rare pair of Nike "Moon Shoes" could fetch as much as $160,000 in an auction held by Sotheby's. A rare pair of Nike's "Moon Shoe" has broken the world auction record for a pair of sneakers, according to New York auction house Sotheby's.

“Both the Moon Racer and the VaporFly 4% tell stories around innovation,” says Nathan Schultze, Nike Sportswear footwear designer. The first Nikes to feature Waffle Soles were Nike Moon Shoes.