Maybe if they had spent some of the million dollars buying better switches
that wouldn't break so easily, they would never had needed the pen....
Chris
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From: Jason Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 September 1999 0:05
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Subject: RE: MI WAPHGIS: how to kill the Caps Lock key
Just a totally unrelated fast fact-
When Buzz Aldrin was getting back into the lunar landing module and removing
his suit, he accidentally knocked off a switch on a control panel. When
they tried to use the switch and found the toggle missing, he used that same
pen to stick in the resulting hole and activate the control.
Ironic with the hoopla about costs that it likely saved the lives of two men
on the moon...
Jason
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> Reminds me of one of my favourite stories about technology,
>
> When NASA wanted a pen to write in space, they spent a million dollars on
> developing the pen that wrote upside down
>
> Whereas the Russians just used a pencil....
>
> And in the American sequel, the product was later immortalised in pop
> culture by Sienfeld - who made more money from the idea than NASA.
>
>
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