RE: taxes and zero gravity not TR related, but I could not

["Randall Young" <Ryoung@navcomtech.com>]

> > When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered
> >
> >  that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat this
> problem,
> >
> >  researchers spent much time and several million dollars
> developing a pen
> >
> >  that writes in zero gravity,

Nonsense, early American astronauts used pencils too.  Paul C. Fisher
invented the "space pen" on his own nickel (actually about $1M, but not tax
money) and sold them to NASA for the princely sum of $2.95 each.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Randall