Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Remember NASA put out a request for a pen that would write in space and the result after a lot of money was spent was the pressurised spacepen, very good it is, I use one at work, the first one in the link..
Russia simply issued their cosmonauts with pencils
https://www.penheaven.co.uk/pen-bran...SAAEgJIafD_BwE
In fairness to NASA, pencils were considered, but a broken piece of graphite pencil lead, floating in zero gravity, could have caused a short and was considered a risk to electronic circuits...they went ahead with the pen.