Buzz Aldrin's Apollo 11 Pen Fetches $850,000 at Auction

In the summer of 1969, a felt-tip pen became the difference between two men returning from the moon and remaining there forever. Fifty-seven years later, that same pen — ordinary in manufacture, extraordinary in consequence — sold at auction for more than $850,000, a price that speaks less to the object itself than to humanity's enduring need to hold the past in its hands. As Buzz Aldrin, now in his nineties, parts with the artifacts of a life lived at the edge of the possible, the market confirms what collectors have long understood: the tools that shaped history carry a weight no dollar figu

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