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[i]Parker made these pens to commemorate the ten-year anniversary of the US space agency we know today as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration or NASA. The pens were made from the Atlas booster rocket which sent Colonel John H. Glenn on his historic flight, man's first, to orbit our planet on February 20, 1962. While booster rockets normal burn up during their return descent through the atmosphere, a piece survived reentry and landed in Africa. This piece was later returned to NASA who identified it.[/i]
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