> If we are telling anecdotes, here is another one. Back
> in the 1960s American astronauts found that their ball
> point pens did not work in space in a zero-gravity
> condition. To fix the problem, NASA spent a few million
> $ to invent one that does. The Russians faced the same
> problem, of course, but instead of pens, they used pencils.
False.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp