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Your Fisher Space Pen is unconditionally guaranteed to give you good, satisfactory service both here on Earth and in Space. At the Writer's Edge, we carry the entire line of Fisher Space Pens (all 70+ models). Unless otherwise specified all pens come gift boxed, and we will gladly ship your order anywhere in the world. |
Jim Jobin, Owner of The Writer's Edge, with Paul C. Fisher, Space Pen Inventor
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How a Fisher Space Pen Helped Armstrong and Aldrin Return from the Moon It's a story that for many weeks was not circulated outside the inner circles of the U.S. Space Program: the Fisher Space Pen helped the original Moon-landing astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, get back to Earth. A spokesman for NASA recounted the story to Paul C. Fisher, whose company manufactured the pen. When about to leave the moon, and the astronauts were climbing back into the Lunar Module, the life support backpack on one of the astronauts brushed against the plastic arming switch and broke it. The switch was to have activated the LM's engines for the module's rendezvous with the mother spacecraft. Aldrin informed Houston's Space Center by radio. A Scientist went to work on the problem immediately by breaking the plastic switch on a duplicate module and then studying the possibility of reaching a tiny metal strip inside the switch.
The story came out after John McLeish, a NASA public relations official, was quarantined with Armstrong and Aldrin upon the Astronauts' return from their space trip. McLeish told Fisher of the emergency on the moon, related to him by the astronauts. "If it hadn't been for Fisher Space Pens, the astronauts, Armstrong and Aldrin, might still be up there on the Moon." The early astronauts used pencils for note taking because there were no Space Pens and no other pens would work in space. With the astronauts in mind, Fisher developed what he called his "Space Pen," a pen that would write under weightless conditions and in the vacuum of space. |
... And Today
MIR Cosmonauts Use Fisher Space Pens For Their Writing Needs
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Actual AG7E Space Pen Floating in it's original gift box |
| Russian MIR Commander Anatoly Solovyev Jun 7-17, 1988: Soyuz TM-5/MIR
Space Station Commander Anatoly Solovyev has logged 652 days in space, which is the second longest of any US or Russian astronaut. Commander Solovyev holds the current world record for EVA's (ExtraVehicular Activities, commonly known as space walks) at 16. |
MIR cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradow (L) and Commander Anatoly Solovyev (R) are shown floating their Fisher Space Pen Model #AG7E aboard Soyuz TM-26 (Aug 5, 1997 - Feb 19, 1998), which rendezvoused with Shuttle Mission Atlantis STS-86 and STS-89 Endeavour. The Anti-Gravity capable Fisher Space Pen made its maiden voyage in October 1968 aboardApollo VII commanded by Wally Schirra and has been used on all manned US space flights since that time. The AG7E Space Pen is the very same model that saved the Apollo XI mission when the Engine Arming Switch was broken and the only tool available was their Space Pen (see story above). |
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