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Today I learned…

that it’s actually an urban myth that NASA spent ‘millions’ on a pen that works in space while the Russians used pencils. The actual Space Pen was privately developed, and replaced pencils in both the US and Russian space programs due to the potential of pencils spontaneously burning in space.

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Posted on Friday, February 17 2012. Tagged with: NASARussiapenpencilspacemyth
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Wolfen Guy Name's Oleg, and this here is a little corner of the web where I post things pertaining to my interests. Seeing as they are wide and many, there will be quite a variety of stuff that gets posted.

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