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Myth busted: Americans spent millions to make a pen that would flow in space -- the Russians used a pencil
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Siddharth Singh on Twitter: "Remember that story about NASA spending millions of dollars developing a pen that worked in space while the Soviets used pencils? About that… https://t.co/j5CBcO9KmX" / Twitter
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Is the story true that the US spent millions developing a space pen while the Russians used a simple pencil? - Quora
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united states - Did NASA invest a million dollars in the research of a space pen, when the USSR simply used a pencil? - Skeptics Stack Exchange
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NASA did not actually spend $12 billion on a space pen while the russians used pencil. | Unbelievable facts, Space pen, Fisher space pen
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