The Space Pen made its on-orbit debut aboard Apollo 7. A year later it was adopted by the Russian space program, too. For five decades, Space Pens has been on board every human spaceflight mission.

The black titanium nitride Astronaut Space Pen, identical to the type Whitson, Shoffner, AlQarni and Barnawi will use, is now for sale from Fisher's website for $118 each.

We’ve all heard of the Fisher Space Pen. Heck, there’s even an episode of Seinfeld that focuses on this fountain of ink, which is supposed to be ready for action no matter what you throw at it.

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Specialized pens are made by the thousand at Fisher Space Pen in Boulder City. The company is aptly named as they've been an integral part of space exploration around the ...

Fisher Space Pen Co. started the same year that Cary Fisher, current president and co-owner of the company, was born: 1948. Back then the company was headed by Paul C. Fisher under the name Fisher ...

One of the astronauts on the Space Pen’s inaugural flight, Lunar Module pilot Walt Cunningham, recently said that 50 years ago, he “flew with the first flown Space Pen on Apollo 7.

But, after testing the space pen intensively, the agency decided to use it on spaceflights beginning in 1967. Unlike most ballpoint pens, Fisher's pen does not rely on gravity to get the ink flowing.