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Forum:	Free Space
Topic:	Science Channel's How It's Made: Space Pen

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<table border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="600"><TR><td bgcolor="#000000"><TABLE BORDER=0 cellpadding=4 border=0 cellspacing=1 WIDTH="100%"><TR bgcolor="#660000"><TD COLSPAN=2><CENTER><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#ffffff" FACE="arial, helvetica">T O P I C     R E V I E W</font></CENTER></TD></TR><TR bgcolor="#494949"><TD valign=top><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Robert Pearlman</FONT></TD><TD><FONT SIZE="2" FACE="arial, helvetica">Science Channel video <BLOCKQUOTE><I>With zero gravity being the standard in space, how do astronauts solve the problem of writing things down if the pen is upside down? Uniquely made space pens!</I></BLOCKQUOTE> <center><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3mjmAzf4oKs?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen>

Wehaveliftoff

Still favor the Russians first to implement simple solution: pencil. Far cheaper, too.

Robert Pearlman

Both the Soviets and the U.S. paid more per pencil then they did for the pens.

U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts used pencils until 1968. NASA's mechanical pencils cost $128.89 each. When NASA adopted the already developed Fisher pressurized pen, it paid $2.39 per pen (a 40 percent discount off retail; the same price the Soviets paid for the Fisher space pens a year later).

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