1 million USD at the time, but r&d was privately funded and both NASA and the soviets bought them rather cheap (~3USD per pen when bought at scale) https://en.

1 million USD at the time, but r&d was privately funded and both NASA and the soviets bought them rather cheap (~3USD per pen when bought at scale) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen?wprov=sfla1 That copypasta is an urban legend.