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Microcap & Penny Stocks : HGRM--Any Followers?
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To: Jim Burnham who wrote (1822)2/4/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: David Hubbard  Read Replies (1) of 3576
 
Those Russians are shrewd and drive a hard bargain.
I remember during the heat of the space race in the
1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA) realized that astronauts
would have to be able to record certain things
while performing their duties and so it needed a
writing utensil capable of writing in the zero
gravity confines of its space capsules. Of course,
a normal pen will not work since they are all gravity
fed, but the design specification called
for a pen to be used.

After considerable research and development spanning
over two years, the working zero-g Astronaut Pen was
developed at a cost of approximately $1 million U.S.
(in 1960's dollars !!). The initial production run was
fifty pens.

The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, issued pencils.

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