On Aug 2, 3:17 pm, "Jonathan" wrote:
An article in Scientific American does some myth-busting.

Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that
Would Write in Space, whereas the Soviet Cosmonauts
Used a Pencil

"The problem of weightless writing was not solved by either
Soviet central planning or good old American sub-contracting,
but by a private investor and a good idea"
By Ciara Curtinhttp://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=9CF01C5C-E7F2-99DF-3EEFFCD...

What the F are you silly damage-control clowns doing, besides your
having been wasting our limited resources and diverting what little
talent we've got left to work with.
- Brad Guth