Aldrin reflects on first moon landing
Friday, July 17, 2009 - 19:21
in Astronomy & Space
Buzz Aldrin still has the felt-tipped pen he used as a makeshift switch needed to fire up the engines that lifted him and fellow Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong off the moon and started their safe return to Earth nearly 40 years ago.
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