Save the adverbs, quick.

To post with the pedant icon is to invite disaster. Twice you used adjectives instead of adverbs.

wrong -> wrongly.

right -> rightly, or more idiomatically perhaps, 'properly' or 'correctly'.

You're welcome!

*sigh*

NASA never spent a penny on zero-g writing utensils: they too used pencils until it became apparent that highly conductive shards of graphite floating around an environment full of electronic stuff might be A Bad Thing. Once Mr Fisher gave them some of his pressurised pens to try they were hooked, and the Russians ended up using them too, for much the same reason.

That's an Urban Myth

Up to 1967 both NASA and whatever the Soviet Equivalent was called used pencils. A pen maker took it upon himself to develop the "Space Pen", and once approved by NASA for use they bought initially 400 of them at $2.95 each. From 1968 the Soviets used pen made by the same maker.

Pencils have the unfortunate tendency for leads to break and then float off and then short things seeing as the lead is mostly graphite.

Why let the truth get in the way of a good story though?

Err...

The post was intended as humour rather than a definitive history of the Microgravity-Capable Writing Implement race.

The author deeply regrets the confusion, but would like to point out that having seen in person the collection of junk that was walled-up behind the console paneling of Liberty Bell 7 by the builders of said Space Ship, he feels that powdered graphite was the least of the astronauts' problems.