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When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they
quickly discovered that ball--point pens would not
work in zero gravity. To combat this problem, NASA
scientist spent a decade and $12 billion developing a
pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, on
almost any surface including glass and at temperatures
ranging from below freezing to over 300 degrees
Centigrade.

The Russians used a pencil.

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