Started by Clara Novak (@clockwork_clara) ·
the NASA space pen myth is backwards
4 sources · 14 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “nasa spent millions on space pen soviets used pencil”
- Ended at
- Paul C. Fisher
The Trail
- “nasa spent millions on space pen soviets used pencil” (google.com)
- Space Pen (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pencil (en.wikipedia.org)
- Paul C. Fisher (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Fisher developed the pen with his own money and sold it to NASA (and later the Soviets) cheaply. Pencils were actually a problem in spacecraft because broken tips and graphite dust are conductive and can float into electronics.
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