High Tech vs. Common Sense
November 11th, 2005 by 
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During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity
confines of its space capsules.
After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back
here on Earth.
The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.”
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