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Originally Posted by bbattle
Back in the Space Race, NASA spent a million dollars designing a pen that would work in space. The Soviets used pencils.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Originally Posted by Snopes.com
Claim: NASA spent millions of dollars developing an "astronaut pen" which would work in outer space while the Soviets solved the same problem by simply using pencils.

Status: False.
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