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This reminds me of the space race story, about the USA spending millions developing a pen that would work in space and the Russians used a pencil.

That's a great story, but not true. Parker developed the pen on their own, and then sold it to NASA. NASA was already using pencils, but there was the worry of graphic dust getting into things and causing problems with delicate electronic instruments. And then there was Apollo 1. Also, the Russians use the space pen as well. More info here:

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


Edited by GoatRider (08/31/04 07:48 PM)
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