Comment on Pens in Space
holycrap@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
NASA used crayons before those space pens, and iirc the pens were available for a while before they tried them
Comment on Pens in Space
holycrap@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
NASA used crayons before those space pens, and iirc the pens were available for a while before they tried them
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
this is partially correct; the missing pertinent bit - there was a crayon shortage due to the influx of marines recruited for the vietnam war, forcing NASA to seek alternatives.