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This is an urban legend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and_Soviet_space_programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the

• miramba 3y ago
  Yet they sold me one of those space pens in the cape canaveral visitor center in 2000…and it‘s a really good pen, works as advertised upside-down, and is still working. I like to use it when I sign important papers.
  • DarmokJalad1701 3y ago
    The urban legend is not that such a pen exists. But the part about the pencils and the part that NASA paid their engineers to develop the pen. The Fisher pen was developed using private capital, not government funding. It was later used by both NASA and the USSR.