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Nov 25, 2019 · An image shared on Facebook claims NASA spent more than $165 million to develop pens that work in zero gravity. The Russians simply used pencils, it also claims. Verdict: False. Both U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts used pencils in their early space flights but have since transitioned to using Fisher Space Pens.
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Dec 20, 2006 · In fact, NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Houston's Tycam Engineering Manufacturing, Inc., in 1965. They paid $4,382.50 or $128.89 per pencil.
- Ciara Curtin
May 14, 2019 · In fact, NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Houston’s Tycam Engineering Manufacturing, Inc., for Project Gemini, the agency’s second human spaceflight program, which flew in 1965 and...
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Aug 1, 2007 · Indeed, in 1965 NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Tycam Engineering Manufacturing in Houston at $128.89 apiece: $4,382.50 in total. When these sums became public and caused an outcry,...
- Ciara Curtin
May 3, 2021 · Social media users are resharing old posts that falsely say NASA spent a decade and millions if not billions of dollars of tax-payers' money developing pens for its astronauts while Russia made...
Feb 23, 2017 · In 1967 NASA managers agreed to equip the Apollo astronauts with these pens. About 400 units were ordered at a price of $2.39 per pen, with a 40% bulk discount.
Aug 18, 2014 · In 1965, they paid a whopping $4,382.50 ($31,949 today) for just 34 pencils made by Tycam Engineering Manufacturing Inc. Needless to say, the public was not happy with the way their tax dollars were being spent in this instance.
