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Fisher Space Pens are used by NASA on all manned space flights since 1967 because it is the only type of pen that will write satisfactorily in the vacuum of Space. The Fisher Space Pen will write at any angle, even upside down. We believe it to be the smoothest writing, most dependable pen in the world. (For more detailed technical information, read at our Space Pen Story).

Your Fisher Space Pen is unconditionally guaranteed to give you good, satisfactory service both here on Earth and in Space.

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Jim Jobin, Owner of The Writer's Edge, with Paul C. Fisher, Space Pen Inventor


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 AG7E is the exact
model that Aldrin used to
activate the inner switch
which lighted the engines.
AG7 = Anti-Gravity
Apollo 7 maiden voyage.

The strip had to be flipped over to one side to activate the LM engine, but Ground Control knew the astronauts had dispensed with practically all tools in the interest of less weight. But the astronauts still had their Space Pens, so they were advised to retract the point and use the hollow end of the pen to activate the inside switch. Then, Aldrin used his Space Pen to flick the switch's inner workings. He and Armstrong were lifted from the moon to the Apollo Space Ship for return to earth.

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

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
Feb 11 - Aug 9, 1990: Soyuz TM-9/MIR Space Station
Jul 27, 1992 - Feb 1, 1993: Soyuz TM-15/MIR Space Station
Jun 27 - Sep 11, 1995: Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-71/MIR landing in Soyuz TM-21 Capsule
Aug 5, 1997 - Feb 19, 1998: Soyuz TM-26/MIR; Visiting Shuttles: STS-86 Atlantis, STS-89 Endeavour

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).

Copyright © 2001 Jim Jobin - The Writer's Edge

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