Space Pen - a history

[jdmyers4]

Being a fan of the space program, I found this to be an interesting story about the development of a pen that would work in zero-g. Found on the Scientic American web-site.

www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa004&articleID=9CF01C5C-E7F2-99DF-3EEFFCD06138AEC4

John

 

[Bob A]

I have a Fisher space pen refill in the Atlas that I carry around. Works great. First thing I did was try and write on wet paper because I was skeptical about the claim, but it in fact writes perfect on wet paper.

 

[btboone]

I looked into making my titanium pens fit the space pen refill. I wasn't that impressed with the writing quality though. The thick ink seems to make a gummy mess on the paper sometimes. I bought a whole bunch of different types of refills and found the long life roller ball refills to write better in my opinion.

 

[underdog]

I bought one of these as a gift for a teacher/sponsor once. I had the same experience that Bruce did. Thing didn't write worth a toot.

 

[Blind_Squirrel]

Originally posted by underdog
<br />I bought one of these as a gift for a teacher/sponsor once. I had the same experience that Bruce did. Thing didn't write worth a toot.

I have a couple of them but rarely use them because of the poor ink quality.