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Fred Sanders

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1. Millions for a zero gravity pen...Russians used pencils...explains a lot.
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 09:43 PM
Oct 2014

“To use an analogy, when the Americans wanted to write in space they spent millions of dollars developing a special pen which works in zero gravity. The Russians said ‘just use a pencil’. My philosophy is to look for the pencil in the problem."

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