NASA's Million Dollar Space Pen vs The Soviet Pencils
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Does a great job explaining the myth of the pen vs. the pencil.
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Yeah, I knew it was a myth, but it's' interesting how that myth came about and how the Soviets ended up buying a bunch of the privately developed Fisher Space Pens for their own space program. I bought one once... it eventually started leaking out of the ball point end due to the internal pressurization of the ink cartridge and what must have been a viscosity change in the ink.
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Put the Fisher cartridges in Zebra bodies. Great metal body pin for not-too-many dollars.
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