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
billion developing a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on
almost any surface including glass and temperatures ranging from
below freezing to over 300 degrees Centigrade.
The Russians used a pencil.
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