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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Edwarda who wrote (12906)12/29/1999 8:14:00 PM
From: Peter S. Maroulis  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
Why I Love America
During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it
needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines
of its space capsules.

After considerable research and development, the Astronaut
Pen was developed at a cost of $1 million.

The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a
novelty item back here on Earth.

The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem of writing in
zero gravity, used a pencil.
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