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[acroyear]

In the 60's, NASA realized that astronauts were going to be taking notes in space. Of course, pens at the time were fed by gravity. So they spent all this money developing a pen that could write in zero-g. (Pressurized ink and all that. I think thats how the paper-mate was invented.)

Anyway, the russians just use pencils.

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[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

yes, snopes.com is saying its false, in that the research was done by a private firm, not paid for by NASA (who still went a bought the pens anyways, 400 at $2.95 a piece. expensive, but not the $1m in research it cost).

There's nothing that connects it to paper-mate or any other commercial-grade ballpoint.