The Fisher Astronaut Pen is made from solid brass with an extremely hard chrome plating; it is a heavy pen, with the weight resting reassuringly in your hand as you write. It has a very positive and substantial feeling click mechanism, with a plunger on the top for extending the refill, as well as a unique side release button to retract it. Its special design helps to ensure that you will always remember to retract the point before you slide it back into your pocket.
What do NASA, Ronald Reagan, “Seinfeld” and the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding teams have in common?They have all used Southern Nevada-based Fisher Space Pen Co. The AG7 Anti-Gravity Pen could write upside down, at any angle and on almost any surface. Because it was pressurized it could also write under water, through grease and in extreme temperatures ranging from -30 to 250 degrees F. NASA was the first to get its hands on the revolutionary pens when it sent them into space on the Apollo 7 in 1968. Since the Apollo 7 Mission, the company has been producing the pens used in all of NASA’s manned space flights, more than 100 in total. The particular Space Pen is in The Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection as a symbol of American industrial design