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Nature 446, 36 (1 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446036a; Published online 28 February 2007
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Urban legend has it that American engineers spent more than a million dollars inventing an 'astronaut pen' that could work in space, while the Russians simply used a pencil. True or not, the tale shows that the best solutions can sometimes be found in mundane objects.
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