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It was, but barely, as it turns out. They almost crashed on the Moon's surface when the lander's shitty little computer gave out.
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Lifting off from the moon had its own problems.
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At the end of the Apollo 11 moon landing, while discarding some of the equipment from the LEM, the switch used to ignite the motors was broken off. To improvise, they used the casing from one of their space pens to turn the switch and start the motor. This wouldn't have been possible if they had been using pencils.
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