Comment on Pens in Space

holycrap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• mojofrododojo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  NASA used crayons before those space pens, and iirc the pens were available for a while before they tried them

  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.

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