October 24th, 2003
Urban Myth - Ballpoints don’t work in Space
There is a famous urban myth (I first saw it in someone’s sig. on Slashdot) that the American Space Programme spent millions on a “SpacePen” that would work in the Zero-G of space — While the Russians used Pencils.
This isn’t true for a variety of reasons-
- NASA did not commission the SpacePen that we all saw advertised in the 80’s - You know - the one that can write underwater. It was developed by some loony just because he wanted to.
- The Russians used ordinary ballpoints - that work fine in Zero-G
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