Legend has it that in the 60s, NASA wanted pens that could be used in space since the normal pens wouldn’t function due to gravity and reportedly spent millions of dollars trying to create one, a problem their smart Russian counterparts solved by simply making use of pencils.
The story is not true as both agencies initially made use of pencils and also later made use of specially designed pens by Fishers for writing in space. Read more here
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