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pen or pencil?

Hecate · 1999-08-08 19:57:00

During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about US $1 million. The pen worked…

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During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about US $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth.

The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil

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#2 09-08-1999 12:08am
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#3 09-08-1999 5:01pm
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Take it USA !

As all you ' Quake Fiends ' would say.

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