And the clever U.S. spent years and billions of dollars creating a pen for space. And the stupid Ivan uses a pencil.
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Very educational.
This story is nothing more than a fiction or a joke.
Paul Fisher fought over a non-flowing handle (the ball handles of the 50s and 60s were not very reliable) and used thick inks, and to make them flow, he conceived a strap under pressure (well and in detail). Eventually, a pencil came out writing anywhere. And he worked in Nevada, where the pilot with the katzmanafts was a doping. Here NASA bought it and specifically did not develop such a uberhren. Nasa pen, Fisher’s advertising.
American astronauts first also wrote with pencil, and then switched to flomasters, our ones had pencil but not graphite, but oil / wax, because the tree on board and current-conducing graphite does not contribute to normal work in the weightlessness and oxygen-saturated atmosphere of the nifig.
Thanks for attention.