There's an old joke about pens, NASA, and Russia which turned into an urban legend. Today we debunk NASA spending billions on a space pen and find out the true story behind the space pen that reduced the dangers of writing in space and another pen that quite literally saved the moon landing.

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Sources
https://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=19131

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-fisher-space-pen-boldly-writes-where-no-man-has-written-before-1020748/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-years-pen-saved-apollo-11/story?id=64228723

https://www.eetimes.com/how-a-felt-tipped-pen-saved-the-apollo-11-mission/

https://www.asicentral.com/news/web-exclusive/july-2019/how-a-felt-tipped-marker-saved-the-moon-landing/

https://www.history.com/news/buzz-aldrin-moon-landing-accident

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