标题: The Astronaut Pen [打印本页] 作者: michaelchen 时间: 2008-10-16 23:06 标题: The Astronaut Pen The Astronaut Pen
During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $1 million U.S.The pen
worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.