88 An old soviet joke thats apt today! (twitter.com) 🐴 SHITPOST 💩 posted 210 days ago by bubble_bursts 210 days ago by bubble_bursts +88 / -0 17 comments share 17 comments share save hide report block hide replies
So this one is only partly true.
NASA considered pencils but it was found that micro shards of graphite could break off the pencil,enter the electronics and potentially interfere with their operation.
Source: NASA?
Well, the Russians did too...
Here's an article from 2006 about it, so not woke...
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/