What is the alternative function of a fisher space pen?
Dr. Beck: And if I recall, there was an emergency repair in space that had to do with one of your pens? Paul C. Fisher: Yes, it was during the Apollo 11 flight. In 1969, the astronauts were on the moon, and I was in Vienna because my partner and I owned a pen manufacturing plant there. Anyway, what happened was that one of the astronauts’ backpacks had collided with the plastic arming switch used to start the jets to blast off from the moon. The astronauts were in the lunar lander and they had already discarded the tools onto the lunar surface, they had closed and sealed the hatch and re-pressurized the space craft. They found out that they couldn’t throw the arming switch! They had no tools and they couldn’t figure out how to start the lander! They called the engineers back at Mission Control. Mission Control called Grumman Aircraft, and one of the electricians on Earth figured out that if he took
