True?

[perkele]

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

The Russians used a pencil.

lol

 

[*The_West*]

lmao

 

[b0und]

It's a joke perk, or an urban legend if you like.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_zero_gravity_pen.htm

Then again it might have been a clever marketing plot...

http://www.thespaceshop.com/sppefi.html

This tells most of the story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen




b0und (heard that one before)