While I like the spirit of your comment (and for that I salute you), your facts are less than accurate. Around one million dollars was invested to create the pen, and that was privately invested by the inventor and not NASA or the federal government. NASA only paid around $2.39 for each pen they acquisitioned. Here is an article providing support for my claims.
Consider all of the jobs that were created with the creation of NASA. Also, like Texas KA and Animal House said, the invention and innovation sparked by NASA is astronomical. Many of the things you use every day would’ve never been created with out space exploration.
We haven’t sent a man to the moon since 1973. Our tax money is being wasted by seeing if a fucking monkey or a flower can live in a spaceship. If the mission of NASA is not to make a weapon that can destroy the whole country of Afghanistan at the push of a button, then it’s worthless.
Why worry about space when there is so much shit wrong in America right now?
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp
14 years ago at 11:14 amWhile I like the spirit of your comment (and for that I salute you), your facts are less than accurate. Around one million dollars was invested to create the pen, and that was privately invested by the inventor and not NASA or the federal government. NASA only paid around $2.39 for each pen they acquisitioned. Here is an article providing support for my claims.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen
14 years ago at 11:22 amOut of this world marketing though to have the pen that’s so good it works in space. Hope that paid off for the guy.
14 years ago at 5:14 pmCorrection to my post: $2.95 and not $2.39.
14 years ago at 12:03 pmNASA=a waste of money.
14 years ago at 12:38 pmOkay, Obama…
14 years ago at 1:17 pmNASA = a great investment. The technology they produce returns dollars for every penny invested.
14 years ago at 1:38 pmhey Frattiesburg you wouldn’t have a GPS without NASA, or half of the plastics we use daily for that matter. Sending a man to the moon. TFM.
14 years ago at 1:53 pmConsider all of the jobs that were created with the creation of NASA. Also, like Texas KA and Animal House said, the invention and innovation sparked by NASA is astronomical. Many of the things you use every day would’ve never been created with out space exploration.
14 years ago at 3:22 pmWe haven’t sent a man to the moon since 1973. Our tax money is being wasted by seeing if a fucking monkey or a flower can live in a spaceship. If the mission of NASA is not to make a weapon that can destroy the whole country of Afghanistan at the push of a button, then it’s worthless.
Why worry about space when there is so much shit wrong in America right now?
PS I’m definitely not pro-Obama.
14 years ago at 4:53 pmNon stick cookware was invented because of NASA. Imagine the kind of help that was for our ladies in the kitchen. And that’s just one of the examples.
14 years ago at 8:31 pmtempur-pedic: FaF
14 years ago at 1:47 pmMy mistake, I can’t find the article I was reading now ether. Interesting.
14 years ago at 1:19 pmWho says you can’t learn things from this site…also false.
Agreed. Nasa = Good Investment
14 years ago at 2:48 pmOutrageous spending NF
14 years ago at 4:13 pmSounds like my tax dollars once again were wasted on useless government spending. I’d spend that 12 billion on beer.
14 years ago at 7:07 pmdefinitely bought one of these pens when i wen
14 years ago at 8:53 pmt to the space center as a kid.
14 years ago at 8:53 pm