Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon
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一支干涸的毛毡记号笔和一块断裂的黑色塑料模具在苏富比拍卖会上以85.76万美元成交。57年前，这两件物品随阿波罗11号飞船升空，参与人类首次登月任务。其中，断裂的电路断路器开关顶端曾险些将宇航员困在月球表面，而记号笔则成为解决这一危机的简单工具。当时，宇航员巴兹·奥尔德林用这支笔推入开关，成功启动上升发动机，确保任务顺利完成。
A dried-out felt-tip marker and a snapped-off piece of molded black plastic sold for $857,600 at a Sotheby's auction on Wednesday.
What otherwise might have been worthless bits of trash commanded the highest bids due to where the two items were 57 years ago—lifting off aboard NASA's Apollo 11 spacecraft on humanity's first mission to land astronauts on the Moon. More than flown odds and ends, 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.
"Houston, Tranquility. Do you have a way of showing the configuration of the engine arm circuit breaker?" radioed Aldrin to Mission Control after realizing he or Armstrong had inadvertently broken off the top of the circuit breaker switch that would enable their ascent engine to ignite, beginning their trip back to Earth. "The reason I'm asking is because the end of it appears to be broken off. I think we can push it back in again. I'm not sure we could pull it out if we pushed it in, though."
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