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Wow! This reminds me a lot of that old "Americans spent millions of dollars developing a pen that could write in space, and the Russians used a pencil" story.


NASA or tax payers didn’t spend the money, Fisher did and the pens cost around $3 USD https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-write-stuff/




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