{"id":140,"date":"2006-05-01T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/05\/01\/140\/"},"modified":"2006-05-01T23:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T23:51:00","slug":"140","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/05\/01\/140\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an urban legend that goes like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thought for the day. <\/p>\n<p>During the space race back in the 1960&#8217;s, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of space. NASA went to work. At a cost of $1.5 million they developed the &#8220;Astronaut Pen&#8221;. Some of you may remember. It enjoyed minor success on the commercial market. <\/p>\n<p>The Russians were faced with the same dilemma. <\/p>\n<p>They used a pencil. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amusing story.  Just happens not to be true.  NASA never spent money to develop a space pen.  Ever.  For the full story of what really happened, see what <a href=\"http:\/\/thespacereview.com\/article\/613\/1\">Dwayne A. Day<br \/><\/a> on The Space Review writes about it.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an urban legend that goes like this: Thought for the day. During the space race back in the 1960&#8217;s, NASA was faced with a major problem. The astronaut needed a pen that would write in the vacuum of &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/05\/01\/140\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}