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by telgareith 557 days ago
Pay tell, how much did the "space pen" get in development money again?
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preisschild 557 days ago
1 million USD at the time, but r&d was privately funded and both NASA and the soviets bought them rather cheap (~3USD per pen when bought at scale)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen?wprov=sfla1

That copypasta is an urban legend.

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