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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The pen that Buzz Aldrin used to save the Apollo 11 mission just sold at auction for $850,000

Just after landing on the Moon on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong took a walk along the ...

Far above the Earth, NASA’s Apollo lunar lander put astronauts on the moon

America's most daring, extraordinary feat, landing astronauts on the moon, remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...