Space and more....During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of approximately $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil. ---------------------------------------- Appropriate for the week of 8/3/97...... Did you hear that UPS and FedEx are talking about a merger? ---------------------------------------- Snow White received a camera as a gift. She happily took pictures of the Dwarfs and their surroundings. When she finished her first batch she to the film to be developed. After a week or so she went to get the finished photos. The clerk said the photos were not back from the processor. Needless to say, she was disappointed and started to cry. The clerk, trying to console her, said, "Don't worry. Someday your prints will come". |
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