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NASA Spent Millions Developing Space Pen?

By Daniel Florien on October 22, 2009 in Debunking, History, Science.

Sometimes you hear people claim that NASA spent millions of taxpayers money to develop a pen that would write in space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts used a pencil. It sounds plausible, but it’s an urban legend:
Originally, NASA astronauts, like the Soviet cosmonauts, used pencils, according to NASA historians. In fact, NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils [...]

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