Almost 60 years ago, in 1968, NASA’s Apollo 7 mission launched. It was the first crewed mission of the program. It also marked the first time a NASA astronaut carried a Fisher Space Pen into space, a ...

The reason NASA never used lead pencils and created the space pen instead.

You've probably heard this old anecdote at some point: During the space race of the 1960’s, NASA spent millions upon millions of dollars to develop a pen that could write in space. The Russians just ...