Space Pen...An Out of this World Invention!

Discover how the Fisher Space Pens (also known as the Zero Gravity Pen) are manufactured. They are pens that uses pressurised ink cartridges and are claimed to write in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, over wet and greasy paper, at any angle, and in extreme temperature ranges.

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[west3366]

Anyone else watch this while fondling their spacepens?

[Jonisfilm]

...why not use a pencil?

[garthdude27]

American's made a pen, Russian's used a pencil.

THE END -_-

[serpentphoenix]

the soviets weren't advanced enough to build the space pen.

[Crazyking29]

As said by @gadetman147 , a pencil will break and sebsequently spoiled the machines. But isnt it cheaper to make a pencil casing ?

[supermariostar18]

The Americans spend millions of dollars to invent a pen that can write in space.

The Russians just say "Use pencils"

lol

[harrygallag]

btw the storry about russian using a pencil is bull shit

[MadCowsGaming]

@gadgetman147 they did a grease pencil check wikipedia...

[Kojichao]

Space pen ink == Flubber ??

[LeClaw]

thumbs up if you spotted the Red Dwarf reference ;)