buckr
Published on March 13, 2004 By BuckR In Pure Technology
NASA spent 12 billion dollars to develop a pen that would write in space at Zero Gravity . The Russians came up with a more cost effective way to deal with that problem . They gave their Astronauts a pencil . c ya later . buckr Copyright Smithfield , Va 2004
Comments
on Mar 13, 2004
Oh boy, this one is taking a new turn.... used to be it only cost 1.5 mil.

BTW, it is false....

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
on Mar 13, 2004
wait, one more, you can buy them online:

http://www.thewritersedge.com/fisher.astronaut.cfm
on Mar 14, 2004
I think NASA is responsible for most of the advances of the human race...
on Mar 14, 2004
http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spinoffs2.htm