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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.
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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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May 3, 2021 · For Project Gemini (here), NASA ordered 34 pencils from Tycam Engineering Manufacturing Inc, in Houston, costing a total of $4,382.50 ($128.89 per pencil). At the time many people believed...
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.
Apr 19, 2021 · NASA scientists spent a decade and billions of dollars to make a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, and on any surface in temperatures ranging from below freezing to up to 300 degrees Celsius. The Russians used a pencil.
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Nov 13, 2023 · The plot thickened when the public learned of the exorbitant costs associated with the mechanical pencils supplied to astronauts. A whopping $128.89 per pencil was enough to cause a national stir and bring NASA’s budgetary decisions under the microscope.
