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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