I love that old tale about the American Pen in space versus the Russian solution. A million dollar project to create a pen that can work in zero G versus a cheap 5 cent pencil.
I heard an interesting counter to that once. It was something along the lines of graphite and wood dust fouling up the instruments. I always figured a better air filtration system would still cost less than a million in research either way, but I’m no Mechanical Engineer trying to pawn himself off as a Science Guy either. lol
Hard to disagree and I can’t help but notice people are getting all excited because we are now going to duplicate something we did 50 years ago. We should have been on Mars years ago.
Exactly. The space program since my birth has been as stupid as Columbus returning home and doing nothing but skirt the Mediterranean for the rest of his life.