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Amidst the hypnotic cadence of Bob Marley's inspirational reggae tune "Get-up, Stand-up," engineers in mission control cheered the successful completion of the first two stages of Spirit's stand-up maneuver.
$1.5 million is still alot for a fucking pen, but not like the US can't affoard it.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discoveredthat ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat theproblem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop apen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almostany surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from belowfreezing to 300 C.The Russians used a pencil.
You are misinformed.http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp-V[ x ]
Quote from: whenimondamic on January 09, 2004, 02:56:37 PMWhen NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discoveredthat ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat theproblem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop apen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almostany surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from belowfreezing to 300 C.The Russians used a pencil. Prove this. Prove to me that NASA spent 12 billion dollars to develop a fucking pen.
1) this pen has been around for like 10 years...why are you talking about it now?