2008-03-31

in space no one can pull pencil lead out of your eye

According to an urban legend, NASA spent millions of dollars designing pens to fly in space, while the Soviet Union simply equipped their cosmonauts with pencils. Like so many urban legends, though, this one is false. NASA did not spend any money at all developing the pens.



  • Astroprof's Space Pens article.

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