<VV> Space pen - was $60 Rotisserie!

[Rick Norris]

Well now I guess you are going to tell us Tang wasn't invented for the space 
program! How bout zero gravity toilet paper?
TLH

> 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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