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- They paid $4,382.50 or $128.89 per pencil.
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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 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...
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 1966. The...
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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
Feb 5, 2013 · Astronauts and cosmonauts both used pencils in the early days of space travel, but the mechanical pencils chosen by NASA (wooden pencils were deemed too flammable after the tragedy of Apollo 1) ended up costing almost $130 each, and didn’t work out well in practice.
Oct 17, 2022 · Both NASA and the Soviet space agency received the same 40 percent discount for buying their pens in bulk. They both paid $2.39 per pen instead of $3.98 — much cheaper than the mechanical ...
