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LiuKangBakinPie

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When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realised that ball-point pens wouldn't work in zero gravity.

A million dollar investment and two years of testing resulted in a pen that could write in space, upside-down, on almost any surface and at temperatures from sub-zero to 300 degrees.

When confronted with the same problem, the Russians took a pencil.
 

Perknose

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When NASA first started sending astronauts into space, they realised that ball-point pens wouldn't work in zero gravity.

A million dollar investment and two years of testing resulted in a pen that could write in space, upside-down, on almost any surface and at temperatures from sub-zero to 300 degrees.

When confronted with the same problem, the Russians took a pencil.

Sorry, not true.
 

vailr

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Witness (1985) included Alexander Godunov (1949–1995), who was a Russian-born actor.