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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Like the way NASA gets billions in tax dollars and actually spent 1.7 million developing a pen that wrights in space, as the Russians developed a much cheaper method, a pencil.
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This is a made up story.
Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils.
FALSE:
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp