[2145] in Humor
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Irina Margolin)
Thu Jul 24 11:20:43 1997
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:11:50 EDT
From: Irina Margolin <racha@MIT.EDU>
> SUBJ: It's What Makes this Country Great
>
> During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National
> Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ballpoint
> 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 $1 million U.S. dollars. 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.
