Teflon-what's the real story?

Damon Hill wrote:

NASA spent millions of dollars to develop a space pen that writes
on Teflon.



Source?

--Damon


Oh, God, lets not start this again.... next it will be Boris The Moon
Monkey saying goodnight to Mr. Gorsky....

Pat

On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:50:55 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:





NASA spent millions of dollars to develop a space pen that writes
on Teflon.



Source?

--Damon


Oh, God, lets not start this again.... next it will be Boris The Moon
Monkey saying goodnight to Mr. Gorsky....

Pat

NASA spent millions of dollars to develop a space typewriter for Boris
the Space Monkey and all he wrote back was, "Good luck Mr. Gorsky
a@gggy m9dddd0 eeeeek eeeeeek!!"

Mr. Gorsky by the way, was one of the lost cosmonauts sent up before
Gagarin. It was reported that his last words from orbit were, "This
blows!".

;-) 8*p

- Rusty Barton

Brett Buck writes:

On 10/7/04 5:57 AM, in article ,
"Bill" wrote:

I've heard plenty about teflon being invented for the space program, I
think the story is that it was invented as wiring insulation for the
Mercury capsule, but with the recent press stuff about it, I've seen
reports that it was actually invented in the '30s. Which is it?


And it's a terrible thing to use for wiring insulation, since it
cold-flows. It's banned for use in most aerospace applications that I am
aware of.


Indeed, one of my bosses at LeRC worked on that aspect of the 204
fire. The cold-flow problem was un- or little-known until then,
I gathered.
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On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:50:55 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Oh, God, lets not start this again.... next it will be Boris The Moon
Monkey saying goodnight to Mr. Gorsky....

....Hey, how do you think Gorsky got lucky on the night of July 20th,
1969 after all?

OM

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Rusty B wrote:

Mr. Gorsky by the way, was one of the lost cosmonauts sent up before
Gagarin. It was reported that his last words from orbit were, "This
blows!".


Jackie: "Oral sex? Oral sex? You'll be getting oral sex when America
lands a man on the Moon and returns him safely to Earth in this decade,
Jack!" ;-)

Pat