SpaceArs Technicaabout 5 hours ago
Buzz Aldrin's Apollo pen sells for $857,600
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A dried-out felt-tip marker and a snapped-off piece of molded black plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction. The items were aboard NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft. One was the problem that almost stranded Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface, and the other was the simple solution to saving the mission.
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