The Fisher Space Pen has been made famous by Apollo astronauts and Jerry Seinfeld. But just how does it work? And is NASA really spend millions making it?
US-made pen company celebrates 50 years of journeying to space
Matte Black Bullet Space Pen with Space Shuttle. When closed, bullet space pens are a great size to carry in your wallet, pocket, purse, car glove box, organizer or toolbox. When open it's a full-sized, evenly balanced writing pen. The original Bullet Space Pen was conceived in July of 1948, Paul Fisher was soon machining a pen design shaped from solid aluminum. It became our first Fisher ball point pen, the 400 Bullet Pen, and arguably the most popular pen of the twentieth century.
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Even though our founder, Paul C. Fisher, revolutionized the pen industry 20 years earlier with the invention of the Universal Cartridge Refill, it was his creation of the sealed and pressurized ink cartridge that literally launched the company into space in 1966
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