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American Ingenuity
During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration realized that astronauts would have to be able to record certain things while performing their duties and so it would need a writing utensil capable of writing in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. Of Course, a normal pen will not work since they are all gravity fed.
After considerable research and development that spanned spanning over two years, the working zero-g Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $US 1 Million (in 1960's dollars !!). The initial production run was fifty pens.
The Soviet Union was faced with the same problem....
but they issued pencils.
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