<VV> Space pen - was $60 Rotisserie!

Bryan Blackwell bryan at skiblack.com
Tue Jan 11 08:16:31 EST 2011


Wrong.  In fact, Paul Fisher developed his now famous Space Pen with his own money, and both space programs switched to them from pencils because of the issues with using a pencil in a spacecraft (graphite floating around electrical systems is bad).  It is, much like the Corvair, a brilliant engineering solution which now gets a bum rap.

Source:  http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

--Bryan

On Jan 11, 2011, at 1:55 AM, Rodney Spooner wrote:

> Speaking of Yankee ingenuity, NASA spent millions engineering a zero gravity
> pen so the astronauts could write in space...The Russians used a 5 cent
> pencil. Sometimes, necessity is the motherland of invention...eh,
> comrades???



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