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http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/(permalink)

Author: snopescom

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English

Date published

2000-08-22

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Vacuum The Lesson The West Wing Space capsule Outer space Gravity Wood Soviet Union NBC Astronaut Houston Oxygen NASA Russian language Pen Ballpoint pen The Moscow Times Flash point Ink cartridge Writing implement Soviet space program Project Gemini Project Mercury Space Race Penalty shootout

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NASA spent millions of dollars developing an 'astronaut pen' that would work in outer space, while the Soviets fixed the problem much more cheaply and quickly by using pencils.

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