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Reply to comment by -Raskyl in What kind of items can I buy for my class that would be used on a Shuttle / ISS? by glastonbury13
Everyone used pencils at the beginning of the space program. NASA ordered some mechanical pencils because there were fears over the flammability of wooden pencils after the Apollo 1 fire. They paid something like $130 per pencil in 1965 money, and there was public outcry. Fisher developed the space pen with their own money and offered it to NASA, who paid approximately $2.40 per pen by buying in bulk. The Russians ordered them too and paid the same price.
Both space programs have used them ever since, and one arguably saved the Apollo 11 mission when the astronauts used one to fix a broken arming switch, without which, they could not have returned to earth.
Fisher supposedly spent 1 million developing and patenting the space pen. When you think about how many pens have sold for $50 at various aerospace museums over the decades, it was a solid investment.
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Reply to Taos, NM [1080x1350] [OC] by adamsviscom
It looks like pixel art. That's amazing!
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Reply to comment by QueenoftheFranks in Me (right) and my sister 1996 by QueenoftheFranks
Ah yes, the "I'm sorry" hug that the recipient refuses to acknowledge while secretly enjoying it but not enough to get over their mad... yet.
Yes, I do have sisters.
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Reply to Secret Service Agent in the 80s by stellablueridge
Tan Suit! Thanks, Obama. /s
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Reply to My wife’s toy costume for 2022 by o0_bobbo_0o
I love this. She looks so happy, Fisher Price joy.
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Reply to My mom as a U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), circa 1943. by creepy_old_white_guy
Some sailors definitely had a crush on your mom, lol.
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The City of Brotherly Love.
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Reply to comment by adamdoesmusic in What kind of items can I buy for my class that would be used on a Shuttle / ISS? by glastonbury13
Remember Tang? That nasty orange drink made popular by NASAs food experiments in microgravity. What's scary is how flammable that drink powder is when an aerosol, something easy to achieve in microgravity. We got some truly impressive fireballs throwing it in the air near a campfire.