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During the initial space flights, Nasa discovered that biro pens didn’t work under zero gravity conditions. To beat the problem, Nasa spent 6 years and $2 million in designing a pen for use in space. The pen would work under zero gravity conditions due to the pressurized ink inside, it would work under sub zero conditions, underwater, on glass and virtually any surface known to man. The Russians used a pencil.

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Comment by Mary Sue on July 2, 2009 at 9:42pm
Loved your post. Just one thing...respectfully ask that you change "is ran" to "is run"...sorry, can't help it... there's an old English teacher deep down inside of me.
Comment by Ryan Ransom on July 2, 2009 at 12:43pm
grease pencils work too....
Comment by Gene Clem on June 28, 2009 at 5:12pm
That took me a minute! But, we still won the Cold War..... didn't we??

(probably needed to be in ink and triplicate............)

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