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During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the
U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) 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 $1 million
to the United States. 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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