Yeah, the story of the space pen is also completely wrong, because Fisher mostly created the space pen for marketing reasons. They didn’t create the pen and then end the story there. No, they created the pen because they could sell it to the non-space-faring public, and it was a huge success.
They are still selling it today, 59 years after its invention in 1966.
And the development of the space pen didn’t take years and didn’t cost millions. In fact, NASA only paid a total of $2400 for 400pcs of them. And the main reason they even tasked Fisher with making these was that they were cheaper than the mechanical pencils they first wanted to buy.
I dislike the engineers have no common sense trope, as it’s another instance of sowing distrust in experts that’s been going on since the late 70s.
Yeah it’s a lot like the Russian pencil/ vs space pen meme at this point. (Spoiler, Russia ended up using space pens from Fischer too)
I dislike the engineers have no common sense trope, as it’s another instance of sowing distrust in experts that’s been going on since the late 70s.
Yeah, the story of the space pen is also completely wrong, because Fisher mostly created the space pen for marketing reasons. They didn’t create the pen and then end the story there. No, they created the pen because they could sell it to the non-space-faring public, and it was a huge success.
They are still selling it today, 59 years after its invention in 1966.
And the development of the space pen didn’t take years and didn’t cost millions. In fact, NASA only paid a total of $2400 for 400pcs of them. And the main reason they even tasked Fisher with making these was that they were cheaper than the mechanical pencils they first wanted to buy.
Absolute agreement.