Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space
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All brass & steel construction, hard chrome plating, pocket clip & tungsten carbide ballpoint tip Used on NASA Apollo/Shuttle missions, International
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Why did NASA spend millions developing a pen that would work in space when a pencil is just as good? - Quora
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No, NASA didn't waste millions making the space pen
History of Space Pen – Pens for Writing in Space
Let's get the famous story out of the way first. Everyone 'knows' that ballpoints didn't work in space, without gravity, so the Americans spent
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Writing in space - Wikipedia
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Why Do Astronauts Use Space Pens Instead of Pencils?
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Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space
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While NASA spent a large amount of money developing the Space Pen, the Soviets just used pencils
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NASA's 'Astronaut Pen