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Its a Myth: NASA’s Million Dollar Pen
There’s a popular myth that NASA spent “millions” of dollars developing a pen for astronauts to use in the weightless environment of a space ship – while their sensible Russian counterparts were happy to use the low-tech pencil. Alas, for all its appeal and plausibility, this is not true. Initially, astronauts and cosmonauts were both [...]
Space Race: There Are Dollar Signs on the Moon
Now that the last space shuttle has returned to Earth, NASA can get out of the way, and let the entrepreneurs race to the moon: “It’s probably the biggest wealth creation opportunity in modern history,” said Barney Pell, a former NASA computer scientist turned entrepreneur and now a co-founder of Moon Express. While Moon Express [...]
