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In spite of the joke that NASA spent a million dollars developing a pen that could write in space, while the Soviets just used a pencil, the real story is more complicated.
In reality, US astronauts used pencils, crayons, and grease pencils, as did Soviet cosmonauts. None were an adequate solution.
Paul #Fischer, of Fischer #Pen Company, had been working on a pen that could write upside down or in any other position, something useful for many jobs, and offered it to NASA at a discount of $3 per pen.
When the Soviets eventually turned up asking for pen, they had to pay full retail.

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