When NASA started sending astronauts into space, they realized that the ballpoint pen would not work at zero gravity. A million dollar investment and two years of tests resulted in a pen that would write in space, upside down, on almost any surface and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to over 300° C. When [...]
Archive for May 2nd, 2010
Russian Pragmatism
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Astronauts, Creativity, Pens, Pragmatism, Russia, Space on May 2, 2010 | 3 Comments »
