The Plastic Pen That Saved Apollo 11: How a Simple Felt-Tip Kept Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin From Being Stranded on the Moon

A broken engine switch threatened to leave the first Moon walkers trapped on the lunar surface until an ordinary pen became ...
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Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Felt-Tip pen sells for $857,600 at auction

The felt-tip pen American astronaut Buzz Aldrin used to repair a faulty circuit breaker during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission has ...
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Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Ascent Module Engine

Click to open image viewer. This is the Lunar Module Ascent Engine, one of the most important in the manned Apollo missions. It was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Excursion Module (LEM) ...
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Rocket Engine, Liquid Fuel, Apollo Lunar Module Ascent Engine

Click to open image viewer. The Lunar Module Ascent Engine was used to lift up the ascent stage of the Lunar Module (LM) from the surface of the Moon and then dock with the Command Module (CM) ...