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$4,382.50 or $128.89 per pencil
- Originally, NASA astronauts, like the Soviet cosmonauts, used pencils, according to NASA historians. 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.
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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. When these prices became public,...
- NASA Spent Millions on a Pen Able to Write in Space
Indeed, in 1965 NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from...
- NASA Spent Millions on a Pen Able to Write in Space
Nov 25, 2019 · Fact Check: The Facebook post, which has been shared more than a thousand times, perpetuates a popular urban legend that, upon discovering ballpoint pens did not work in zero gravity, NASA spent millions of tax dollars developing functional writing utensils for space missions.
- Trevor Schakohl
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 · 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...
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.
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.
