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	Urban Legends Reference Pages: NASA Space Pen
		As the story goes, the Americans spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on an ambitious, gravity-immune ballpoint pen; they successfully developed such a pen; and this pen went on to become a massive commercial success in the private sector.
		Lead pencils were used on all Mercury and Gemini space flights and all Russian space flights prior to 1968.
		Fisher Space Pens are more dependable than lead pencils and cannot create the hazard of a broken piece of lead floating through the gravity-less atmosphere.
	www.snopes.com /business/genius/spacepen.asp (631 words)

	Howstuffworks "How Ballpoint Pens Work"
		Ordinary ballpoint pens rely on gravity to feed the ink and have an opening in the top of the ink cartridge to allow air to replace the ink as it is used.
		There is no hole in space pens, eliminating evaporated or wasted ink as well as leakage from the rear of the ink reservoir.
		Since the 1960s, when the "Space Race" began, space pens have been used by the U.S. astronauts on all manned space flights, including lunar trips, and were also used by many of the Russian cosmonauts on the Soyuz space flights and the MIR space station.
	home.howstuffworks.com /pen5.htm (450 words)

	Space Pen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are two prominent styles of the pen: the AG7 "Astronaut pen", a long thin version shaped like a common ballpoint, and the "Bullet pen" which is considerably smaller and has received praise for its stylish design.
		A bullet-style Space Pen is on permanent display at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MOMA).
		The Space Pen was featured on an episode of the American television show Seinfeld.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Pen (661 words)

	Fisher Space Pens at GOLDSPOT
		With its unique design and reputation for writing in extreme conditions the Space Pen has become the pen of choice for the United States air force, law enforcement agencies, undersea explorers, mountain climbing expeditions, ski and snowboard teams or anyone else demanding a high degree of reliability from the equipment they select.
		The secret behind the Fisher Space Pen lies in the unique design characteristics of the ink and the high precision manufacturing tolerances of the ball point and socket.
		An additional benefit of the closed design is that it keeps the pen from drying out giving the Fisher Space Pen an estimated 100 year shelf life.
	www.goldspot.com /fisherspacepens.cfm (168 words)

	Innovationhouse.com - Space Pen Users
		The Space Pen is ideal for outdoor enthusiasts whether they be canoers, hikers, campers, golfers, fishermen or snowmobilers because of its ability to keep writing in the rain, on coated paper, plastic and in all weather conditions.
		Space Pens are used by the FBI, State Troopers, Provincial Police Forces, Parking Authorities, Conservation Officers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
		The pens can write on wet lumber and sheet metal duct work and since they can write on greasy surfaces, they are great for recording information when working under a vehicle.
	www.innovationhouse.com /products/spacepen_users.html (532 words)

	Amazon.com: Chrome Bullet Space Pen Gift Boxed: Office Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Space Pen uses a thixotropic ink (which is solid until motion shears it and turns it to liquid) that is backed by a pressurized cartridge.
		To me this pen exemplifies the minimalist and clean design of the iPod, it is widely considered one of the greatest examples of modern industrial design and has a permanent home in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art.
		The pen is sealed with a high quality rubber O-ring that causes this act to have a sense of substance to it.
	www.amazon.com /Chrome-Bullet-Space-Pen-Boxed/dp/B000B5O0F0 (2008 words)

	The Space Review: The billion-dollar space pen
		Space has its urban legends of course, and the Million Dollar Space Pen is one of the more enduring ones.
		The Million Dollar Space Pen myth reinforces several particular stereotypes, such as the NASA “nerdgineers” who like to redesign the wheel, and the government bureaucrats who waste money on stupid things.
		What various documents about the Space Pen demonstrate is that NASA did not develop the Space Pen and initially did not even purchase it.
	www.thespacereview.com /article/613/1 (1482 words)

	SPACE.com -- Pen, Paper and Weightlessness: Astronaut Pedro Duque's Soyuz/ISS Diary
		As it happens, I've been working in space programmes for seventeen years, eleven of these as an astronaut, and I've always believed, because that is what I've always been told, that normal ballpoint pens don't work in space.
		This is somewhat the feeling of the International Space Station, as seen by a European performing experiments both in the US and the Russian segments, directed by people from the European Space Agency.
		Of course, you are waking up in a space station, after a night inside your sleeping bag, with your arms floating in front of your face - as usual - and legs in that semi-curled position in which the push and pull between the different muscles is evenly balanced.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/duque_soyuz_diary.html (3540 words)

	NASA Space Pen: a ten-year, $12 million price tab-Fiction!
		The government did not fund the development of the pen, it did not cost $12 million to perfect, and neither the Americans nor the Russians consider it desirable to use pencils in space.
		Later, he perfected a pen that was sealed with pressure inside of the cartridge that made the ink to flow regardless of gravity.
		Prior to 1967, there were no pens that worked in space so there were pencils used, but there were concerns about pencil dust floating around the space capsules as well as fears that if the tip of a pencil broke off and drifted into the electronics, there would be problems.
	www.truthorfiction.com /rumors/s/spacepen.htm (425 words)

	PenHero.com - PenGallery - Parker Classic Space Pen 1968
		One of the pens is kept by the Parker family, and one of them was auctioned at the 2000 Chicago pen show.
		Each of those pens, made in 1972, and probably only five total, had a gold plate mounted on the barrel where the moon dust was embedded.
		The pen was personally given by Parker to people associated with the space program, which in the 1960s, was considered one of the highest achievements of mankind.
	www.penhero.com /PenGallery/Parker/ParkerClassicSpacePen.htm (1547 words)

	Military Matte Black Space Pen
		Matte fl so it won't reflect light, this action pen pen is the ultimate writing utility for adverse conditions.
		They were originally developed for use by the Astronauts - It's the only pen that will work in the feezing cold, boiling heat, gravity free void of space.
		The cartridges of conventional ball point pens are open to permit ink to be fed to the point.
	www.greatoutdoorsdepot.com /military-space-pen.html (211 words)

	Fisher Space Pen
		His new pen, with a pressurized ink cartridge, functioned in a weightless environment, underwater, in other liquids, and in temperature extremes ranging from -50 F to +400 F. Fisher developed his space pen with no NASA funding.
		Fisher offered the pens to NASA in 1965, but, because of the earlier controversy, the agency was hesitant in its approach.
		Fisher continues to market his space pens as the writing instrument that went to the Moon and has spun off this effort into a separate corporation, the Fisher Space Pen Co.
	history.nasa.gov /spacepen.html (329 words)

	Fisher Space Pen - 43FoldersWiki
		The original bullet Space Pen is also available with a PDA stylus and pocket clip on the lid so you can clip it to your Moleskine or Hipster PDA.
		The pen has a nice heft, and the way the cap doubles as an extension is very clever.
		Sure, a regular pen is double the size of a bullet pen, but double a very small volume is still pretty small.
	wiki.43folders.com /index.php/Fisher_Space_Pen (823 words)

	Pen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A pen is a writing instrument which applies ink to a surface, paper.
		Pens may be categorized by the kind of tip on them.
		Ballpoints, fountain pens and gel pens are sometimes erasable: their ink may be erased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ink_pen (190 words)

	A Brief History of Space Marketing
		While the space agency struggled to develop a one-handed solution to snapping photographs and advancing the film, Glenn (on his way back from a haircut) stopped by a drug store where he found the self-winding Minolta.
		As such, the Apollo 7 crew became the first astronauts to rely on pens — the AG-7 Space Pen to be exact -- for taking notes while in orbit.
		The aptly named Toys in Space experiment encouraged the astronauts to play while they were filmed to record the reactions.
	www.space.com /news/spaceagencies/space_market_010531-1.html (696 words)

	The Gadgeteer - Fisher Bullet Pen-Stylus Review
		The Fisher Bullet Space Pen (Model #400CL-S) with the clip and stylus point can be purchased from StylusCentral.
		The space pen will write over grease, oil, water, upside down and on most surfaces due to the pressurized ink cartridge and the "viscoelastic thixotropic" ink.
		Once the case lid is closed, the pen won't fall out; and the whole ensemble can be carried with confidence in your back pocket.
	www.the-gadgeteer.com /fisherspacepenstylus-review.html (2284 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fisher Space Pen Bullet Pen with Clip at Epinions.com
		The Cross Ion pen that I wrote my name with is a great pen, but sometimes the gel ink runs a bit thick and goes through pages – and I was worried that it would bleed through on the somewhat thinner pages of the Moleskine.
		The pen was designed for NASA (Fisher designed it out of the goodness of their hearts with no funding nor a request from NASA, try that for being a good corporation).
		The pen is named space pen because it is used by astronauts in space.
	www.epinions.com /content_123353009796 (1517 words)

	Space Pen, Bullet Pen, Personalized Pens from Fisher Pen
		The Fisher Space pen ink cartridge is the key to its superiority. It is pressurized with 35 pounds per square inch of gas. This pressure pushes on the sliding float ball allowing our unique thixotropic ink to flow smoothly in the tungsten carbide ball.
		The NASA Astronaut Pen is the most well known of the Fisher Product line, praised for its durability, dependability and design.
		The New York Museum of Modern Art has cited the Fisher Bullet Pen as an outstanding example of industrial art.
	www.spacepen.com (147 words)

	Review: Inka Pen
		Neither exactly glides over the paper (pressurised pens use gooey ink), but the fine-point fl cartridge in my Space Pen writes about as smoothly as the Inka (which comes in any ink colour you like, as long as it's fl).
		Since the Inka people are, of course, perfectly aware of the existence of Space Pens, and know that lots of other people are too, my thinking is that they'd go out of their way to point out their advantages over the opposition, if they had any.
		So they just pretend Space Pens don't exist, spout some promotional BS and hope to sell their basically identical product to people who've never heard of the 40-year-old competition.
	www.dansdata.com /inka.htm (1370 words)

	Official Fisher Space Pen Store, the Astronaut Pen! Used by NASA on all manned Space Flights!
		Authentic Space Pen and the EXACT model that has been used on all manned space flights since its maiden voyage in 1968 on Apollo VII.
		On the front of the coin the Space Shuttle is in space with it's cargo bay doors extended while the robotic arm launches a satellite.
		Approved in 1997, the Thunderbird Space Pen with its pilot-designed plunger is the writing instrument used by the pilots.
	www.thewritersedge.com /fisher.astronaut.cfm (632 words)

	Countdown Creations - Space Pens: Fisher Space Pens, Refills, & Accessories
		Unlike other ball pens which rely on gravity to feed ink, the Space Pen's replaceable cartridge is pressurized.
		After months of rigorous testing, NASA selected the Fisher Space Pen for use on all of the Apollo missions.
		In 1998, Seinfeld built an episode around the Fisher Space Pen -- where Jerry Seinfeld is berated by his parents for accepting the pen as a gift, from a neighbor who offers it as a token of friendship.
	www.countdowncreations.com /space_pens.htm (283 words)

	Fisher Space Pen Catalog
		In the 1950's there were dozens of ballpoint models, and nearly every one took a different cartridge.
		The space race was on, and the astronauts involved in the Mercury and Gemini missions had been using pencils to take notes in space since standard ball points did not work in zero gravity.
		The Fisher cartridge did work in the weightlessness of outer space and the astronauts, beginning with the October, 1968 Apollo 7 mission began using the Fisher AG-7 Space Pen and cartridge developed in 1966.
	www.pencity.com /Fisher_Pen_Catalog.htm (231 words)

	Orignal Chrome Plated Bullet Fisher Space Pen With Shuttle Emblem
		The "Bullet" pen is another famous original design from Fisher Space Pen.
		The pen is very compact, yet unfolds to become a full-size writing instrument.
		The pen comes in an attractive gift box with a small pamphlet that provides the interesting history of the Fisher Space Pen.
	www.countdowncreations.com /penbullet.htm (87 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Camouflage Space Pen: Electronics & Photo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The pen was later adopted by NASA after testing to be used on all manned space flights.
		With its sealed, pressurised ink cartridge, the Space Pen is the only type o fpen that works in the freezing cold, the boiling heat, the gravity-free vacuum of space.
		Imitated but never duplicated, the classic design of the Fisher Space Pen, known as the 'Bullet', has been cited as an outstanding example of industrial art, and the pen has been exhibited in the New York Museum of Modern Art for many years.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Fisher-Space-Pen-400CM-Camouflage/dp/B0006TV43M (247 words)

	Innovationhouse.com - Fisher Space Pen
		Revolutionary when first introduced and still unmatched today, Fisher Space Pens are used by astronauts in both the US and Russian space programs.
		That is because of the pressurized ink technology that is used in the pen cartridge that fits in a special holder which is itself a construction tool.
		You can grip the pen holder and use the Space Pen that way or take out the pen cartridge and use it by itself.
	www.innovationhouse.com /products/spacepen.html (347 words)

	Fisher Space Pen
		Conceived in a dream in July 1948, Paul Fisher was soon machining a new pen design shaped from solid aluminum.
		Unlike ordinary ball pens which rely on gravity to feed ink, the Space Pen’s replaceable cartridge is pressurized.
		The new visco-elastic ink, with a consistency similar to that of very thick rubber cement, flows as a result of the shearing action of the rolling ball in its socket..
	www.asksales.com /Fisher/Fisher.htm (491 words)

	Fisher Space Pen Bullet w Clip
		The key to the performance of the Fisher Space Pen is in the cartridge.
		Fisher Space Pens were used in Apollo missions and currently are in use by NASA and The Russian Space Agency today.
		Cited as an outstanding example of industrial art, the classic design of the Fisher Bullet Pen has been exhibited for years in the New York Museum of Modern Art.
	www.defensedevices.com /fisppenbu.html (326 words)

	Fisher Space Pens
		Paul Fisher and his Associates invented the Pressurized Space Pen in 1965 at NO COST to NASA or the government.
		NASA tested the Fisher Space Pens and selected them for use on all manned Space Flights.
		With it's sealed, pressurized ink cartridge, the Space Pen will work in the freezing cold, the boiling heat, the gravity-free vacuum of Space.
	www.myofficegifts.com /space_pens.htm (184 words)

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