Buzz Aldrin sells famous felt-tip pen that helped launch Apollo from the Moon

Ars Technica
By Robert PearlmanJul 15, 2026, 6:10 pm82 pts
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…

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