American Ingenuity... During The Heat Of The Space Race In The 1960's, The U.

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American Ingenuity...
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, 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
$1 million U.S. 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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