英語笑話:太空圓珠筆

The Astronaut Pen 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.在二十世紀六十年代，美國和蘇聯正處於太空競賽的白熱化階段，美國航空航天局決定研製一種圓珠筆，以便在太空艙重力為零的環境下仍然可以書寫。經過大量的研發工作，花費了大約一百萬美元的成本，太空筆終於研製出來了。那支筆果然可以在太空書寫，在回到地球后，作為一樣新奇的小玩意兒也確實吸引了一些目光。 　　而面臨著同樣難題的蘇聯，則選擇了一支鉛筆。