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Want to try your hand at landing on the moon? This joystick is a good place to start. Astronaut Dave Scott used it to steer the Falcon lunar module to the moon鈥檚 surface during the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. Now it is up for sale as part of an aviation and space auction by Boston-based .
Scott had to take manual control of when it veered almost a kilometre off course from the planned landing site on the moon. He piloted Falcon to a safe touchdown with the joystick, which was also used in the ascent back to orbit.
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Bidding on the joystick 鈥� if you can鈥檛 stretch that far, a number of other Apollo-related items are for sale, including and an .
