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Bob Eager
 
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 07:08:11 UTC, Geoffrey
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On 14 Sep 2005 21:49:56 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:42:22 UTC, "John Schmitt"
wrote:

The Fisher Space Pen. Writes upside down all day long, if you need it to.


Wasn't there something on TV this week about budgets for the USA and
USSR space programmes? The Americans spent a million dollars developing
a Space Pen, and the Russians....used pencils...!


I love urban myths

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/s/spacepen.htm


Thanks...I did actually think, myself, that a pencil would be a 'bad
idea'!

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