Claim: Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead."
Fact-check: Neither NASA nor Congress spent money to make the space pen
Verdict: false
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Samantha Putterman
Date published: 2019-05-21T00:00:00