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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote koshkin Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: January/01/2010 at 01:21
In defense of NASA (which does enough dumb things to not need anything attributed to it unfairly), they were aware of usability of pencils in space.  They WANTED to create a ballpoint pen that works up there simply because the can (and unlike the russians have discretionary resources).

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[ NASA working on Zero Gravity Toilet:  42 Trillion Dollars...]  
 
 
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In a desire to keep it serious....... the RUSSIANS switched to the space pen too.....
 
Uses in the U.S. and Russian space programs

There exists a common urban legend claiming that the Americans spent millions of dollars developing the Space Pen, and the Russians used a pencil.[1] In fact, NASA programs have used pencils (for example a 1965 order of mechanical pencils[1]) but because of the danger that a broken-off pencil tip poses in zero gravity and the flammable nature of the wood present in pencils[1] a better solution was needed.

NASA never approached Paul Fisher to develop a pen, nor did Fisher receive any government funding for the pen's development. Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it. After the introduction of the AG7 Space Pen, both the American and Soviet (later Russian) space agencies adopted it. Previously both the Russian and American astronauts used grease pencils and plastic slates.[2]

Another rumor has it that the Apollo 11 astronauts accidentally snapped off a switch which was necessary to permit them to fire the engine to return to Earth, and that a Fisher Space Pen was used to press this button. While the incident did occur, Buzz Aldrin has stated that, in fact, he used a felt-tip pen for this.[3]

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They even make paper you can write on in the rain...
You can even get your rifle data book to have this kind of paper...


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