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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, Buzz Aldrin activated a damaged yet crucial circuit with a pen — which has ...

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Buzz Aldrin Used This Humble Felt-Tip Pen to Save the Apollo II Astronauts. It Just Sold for More Than $850,000

In July 1969, a quick-thinking Aldrin used the writing instrument to rearm the engine arm circuit of the lunar module "Eagle" ...
Alameda Post on MSN

USS Hornet celebrates Apollo 11 splashdown anniversary

The USS Hornet Sea, Air, and Space Museum celebrates the anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 splashdown on July 18 with a ...

How Rhode Island manufacturing helped men land on the moon

The Ashton Mill in Cumberland produced the material, Beta cloth, that protected Apollo spacesuits and was also used in the ...
BBC Sky at Night Magazine on MSN

Phew! 8 times astronauts diced with death and got away with it – showing just how dangerous spaceflight really is

These space missions turned into catastrophes but their astronauts survived. This is how they lived to tell the tale ...

Moon shot: The amazing story of how America ultimately beat the Soviet Union in the great space race

From the day the Soviets put an astronaut into space in April 1961, the race was on with America to get a man on the moon.

Houston World Cup visitors are flocking to NASA

Houston has welcomed thousands of visitors from around the world for the FIFA World Cup. Whether attending games at Houston Stadium or congregating with their countrymen at the FI ...
CNBC

Apollo curbs withdrawals after exit requests hit 17%, reigniting fears over private credit liquidity

Apollo is capping withdrawals from its Apollo Debt Solutions private credit vehicle at 5% after redemption requests soared in the second quarter to almost 17%, or $2.4 billion. The move highlights ...
Reuters

Apollo's $26 billion private credit fund imposes 5% cap on requests to pull 17%

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - Apollo Global's (APO.N), opens new tab $26 billion private credit fund, Apollo Debt Solutions (ADS), ‌said on Monday it was curbing redemptions at 5% of its shares after ...
WPXI

First responders spend 2 hours freeing person critically injured in Apollo crash

APOLLO, Pa. — First responders spent hours rescuing someone who became trapped in their vehicle after a crash involving a truck in Apollo overnight. An Armstrong County 911 official tells Channel 11 ...