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02/13/04 4:51 PM

#3212 RE: teapeebubbles #3211

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens
would not work in zero gravity.
To combat this problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 million developing a pen that
writes in zero gravity, upside down, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures
ranging from below freezing to over 300 C.


The Russians used a pencil.