The story that NASA Spent millions to develop a pen that would work in space in zero G while the Russians simply used pencils is not true, at least not in the spirit as it was told. During the Apollo Soyuz mission, when Soviet and US space craft docked in space, Soviet cosmonauts were so enamored with NASA space pen that the Soviet Union approached NASA to purchase it. This was the time of detent and interest in less frosty relationship with the other superpower caused US to approve the export. Anticipating the warm relationship may not last forever, the Soviet purchased a large supply that lasted them until well after the end of the Cold War.
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