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A million -dollar space pen and the Soviet pencil has become one of the more enduring tales from the space race and still floats around the internet today and goes a bit like this during the 1960's as NASA was sending the first men into space they realize that pens don't work in zero gravity so they spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars to develop one that did meanwhile in the Soviet Union that cosmonauts simply used pencils. Apollo 11  crewmember  Buzz Aldrin  on the Moon, 1969 The Fisher Space Pen, Model AG7 (Image Credit: Fisher Space Pen Co.) Image courtesy of Cpg100/Wikimedia Commons The moral of the story to many is that NASA was a wasteful government organization that would be giving your hard-earned tax dollars to some greedy contractors charging sky-high prices for seemingly trivial objects whereas the enemy the Soviets were common sense and practical but the story is a myth however like all goodness it's based on facts facts...