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Fisher Space Pen Company·US·ballpoint
Fisher Space Pen Company
AG7 Original Astronaut Space Pen
* disputed date
The only free frame showing the AG7 rather than the neighbouring Bullet model has the pen in its presentation case, against foam and a warranty card carrying the maker's logo. The background cannot be cut out, and the most legible element of the picture would be the trademark — which this site does not do on principle.
More false stories circulate about the AG7 than about any other pen in this catalogue — and at least two of them are actually about other objects.
The construction: a hermetically sealed pressurised cartridge in which compressed nitrogen at roughly 310 kPa pushes thixotropic ink toward a tungsten carbide ball. That lets the pen write at any angle, upside down, underwater and across a wide temperature range. Patent US3285228, "Anti-gravity pen", filed 19 May 1965 by Paul C. Fisher, published 15 November 1966.
Anniversaries for this model drift chronically, because sources confuse the filing year with the grant year. There is one design — only the dates in the writing about it disagree.
What NASA did not do
The story that "NASA spent millions on a pen while the Russians took a pencil" is false in both directions.
Fisher developed the AG7 with his own money. NASA merely bought it — 400 units, according to an Associated Press report of February 1968. A year later the USSR ordered 100 pens and 1,000 refills for the Soyuz missions, so from 1969 cosmonauts wrote with exactly the same instrument as the Americans.
This is not the pen that saved Apollo 11
The ENG ARM circuit breaker, snapped off by Aldrin's life-support pack, was pushed in with a felt-tip marker. That marker is on display today at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
The AG7 was indeed aboard Apollo 11 and has its own Smithsonian record, but it played no part in that repair. Two legends, one flight, two different instruments.
The Smithsonian in fact holds the AG7 under two records of entirely different provenance. A19720651000 is the Apollo 11 example, transferred by NASA, described materially as "Gold-colored metal, charred". A19700109000 is a gift from the Fisher Pen Company itself, in stainless steel, described as identical to those carried on Apollo 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. One is flown hardware, the other a company reference example. The Apollo record also carries an internal inconsistency: the accession number is prefixed 1972, while the text says the pen was transferred in 1979.
The design recognition belongs to a different model
This distinction decides how the AG7 scores in our rubric.
It is the Bullet #400 that sits in MoMA's permanent collection, not the AG7 — the manufacturer says so and its vice-president repeats it in the press. The museums that do hold the AG7 are the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and the Science Museum Group: institutions of technology and flight, not of design. NASM classifies the AG7 under Personal Equipment — Miscellaneous, mission kit rather than design object.
A museum record is therefore strong evidence of a cultural footprint — and we count it as such — but it is not design recognition.
Likewise the 2021 Space Technology Hall of Fame honour went to the company as an organisation and, posthumously, to Paul C. Fisher as a person. Not to the model.
The pressurised refill did not become a standard
The pioneering legend implies the industry adopted Fisher's format. The dependency runs the other way.
It is Fisher's refill that needs a supplied plastic adapter to fit a Parker-standard barrel, not the reverse. The cartridge measures 89 mm on its own, 99 mm with the adapter. Even Rite in the Rain, the only external user of the format we could find, sells its 37R pressurised refill with a Parker-style retrofit adapter.
Rival write-anywhere pens — the Tombow AirPress, Uni Power Tank, Pilot Downforce, Zebra F-xMD — are separate, mutually incompatible pressurised designs rather than clones of Fisher's format. The industry standard remains Parker's; Fisher's pressurised cartridge is fitted to it.
Design, manufacture, changes
The patent and the funding are Paul C. Fisher's, but the Apollo-era examples were built in Van Nuys, California. The Boulder City plant in Nevada has only operated since 1976.
The manufacturer acknowledges "several minor aesthetic changes" against the 1969 example. A replica seller goes further, claiming the current side-button variant has been unchanged only since 1970 — we found no independent confirmation and do not treat that as settled.
Specification
- Introduced
- 1965(disputed date)
- Status
- in production
- Category
- ballpoint
- Designed in
- US
- Made in
- US
- Designer
- Paul C. Fisher
- Mechanism
- side-button retractable
- Cross-section
- round
- Materials
- brass, steel
- Finishes
- hard chrome plating (standard version), black titanium nitride (AG7-BTN variant)
- Length
- 128 mm
- Diameter
- 9.5 mm
- Weight
- 30 g
- Market tier
- mid
Refill
- Standard
- Fisher Space Pen pressurized refill (PR series)
- Factory code
- PR4
The factory refill is the Fisher PR4 (black ink, medium point, 1.1 mm ball). The same refill is catalogued as SPR4 — the codes differ only in retail packaging designation. The PR family shares one geometry across point widths (PR4F fine, PR4B bold) and colours (PR1 blue, PR2 red, PR5 burgundy, PR6 purple, PR8 brown, PR9 turquoise, PRSL silver); fine-point versions ship in nickel-silver rather than brass barrels. The AG7 accepts only Fisher pressurized refills, which is why no alternative standard is listed. Note the direction of the Parker cross-compatibility: every PR refill ships with a short plastic adapter that lets it work in pens taking Parker-style (G2) refills, but a Parker G2 refill does not fit the AG7.
Legend rubric
Criteria met 3 of 7
A model qualifies on at least two criteria. Every criterion marked as met must cite a source.
Longevity
metprimary sourceThe AG7 was selected by NASA in 1967 after more than two years of testing, debuted on Apollo 7 in October 1968, and is still sold today under the same catalogue item number AG7. The manufacturer states plainly that the overall design has not changed in over 50 years and that today's pen is nearly identical to the one taken to the Moon in 1969, apart from minor aesthetic changes. The construction described in the 1969-1970 museum records — brass body, hermetically sealed pressurised reservoir, tungsten-carbide ball — matches the currently specified build (PR4 refill). That is roughly 58 years of continuous production against a 25-year threshold. One caveat: a replica seller claims the current side-button variant (NASA P/N SEB12100051) has been unchanged only since 1970 and used since Skylab, implying the earliest Apollo units had a different retraction mechanism; I found no independent confirmation, and the maker itself speaks only of minor aesthetic changes.
Original Astronaut Space Pen (item AG7) — Fisher Space Pen (archived 19.11.2025) · Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space — NASA Spinoff · Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo — National Air and Space Museum · Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (object 1991-436) · The Write Stuff: Fisher marks 50th anniversary of space pen — Boulder City Review (17.08.2016) · Fisher AG7 Review — Pens and Planes · AG7 Fisher Space Pen — Luna Replicas
Design recognition
not metI looked for two things: a permanent-collection record at a DESIGN museum with an inventory number, and an AG7 entry in an award organiser's database (Red Dot, iF, Good Design). The Smithsonian record checks out: "Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo 11", Inventory Number A19720651000, manufacturer Fisher Pen Company, transferred from NASA — the quoted inventory number is correct. But NASM is an air and space museum, not a design museum: the object is typed "PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous" and entered the collection as mission hardware transferred by NASA, not as a design exemplar. The Science Museum Group (object 1991-436) is likewise a science and technology museum. The only Cooper Hewitt (Smithsonian Design Museum) hit sits under /shop/brands/, i.e. the museum shop, which the rubric excludes; I could not open it because the Smithsonian blocks automated access, so I treat it as evidence neither way. No AG7 entry exists in any design-award database I could find. The 2021 Space Technology Hall of Fame is a technology-transfer honour given to the company and to a person, not to the model and not for design.
Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo 11 — National Air and Space Museum · Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (object 1991-436) · Fisher Space Pen Inducted into Space Foundation's 2021 Space Technology Hall of Fame — SpaceNews (10.08.2021)
Technical first
not metThe solution itself is a documented first: patent US3285228 "Anti-gravity pen", inventor Paul C. Fisher, filed 19 May 1965, published 15 November 1966; the Science Museum Group describes the AG7 as having a hermetically sealed and pressurised ink reservoir with a tungsten-carbide tip. But the rubric requires it to have become an INDUSTRY standard, and checking the direction of dependency shows the opposite: Fisher adapts to someone else's standard. The Fisher pressurised refill does not fit third-party barrels on its own — a supplied plastic adapter is needed to make it fit a Parker-format pen. The same pattern shows in the only third-party use of the format I found: the Rite in the Rain 37R pressurised refill ships with a "Plastic Parker® style pen retrofit adapter", i.e. it too retrofits into the Parker standard; Rite in the Rain's own page does not name Fisher as maker, so I could not confirm even that OEM relationship at source. Competing write-anywhere pens — Tombow AirPress, Uni Power Tank, Pilot Downforce, Zebra F-xMD — are separate, mutually incompatible pressurisation designs, not clones of Fisher's format. No manufacturer adopted the Fisher cartridge format as its own standard.
US3285228A — Anti-gravity pen (Google Patents) · Space Pen — Wikipedia · All-Weather Pen Refill No. 37R — Rite in the Rain · Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (object 1991-436)
Cultural footprint
metprimary sourceThe role beyond stationery is documented by collection records and a NASA institutional page, and it attaches to the AG7 specifically, not to the line. NASM A19720651000 states the Fisher Pen Company produced this data-recording pen for the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 and that this model AG-7 could write in reduced gravity, with a velcro square added by NASA so it would not float away. A second NASM record (A19700109000) describes a pen identical to those carried on Apollo 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11. The Science Museum Group (1991-436) describes the AG7 as used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11 in 1969. NASA states the pens have been used on every crewed NASA mission since Apollo 7 and that dozens are currently on the ISS; the pen's television debut came in October 1968 when Walter Schirra blew a floating pen across the cabin. Scientific American confirms NASA's order of 400 units (AP report, February 1968) and the Soviet purchase of 100 units for Soyuz. This is the strongest form of the criterion: not a screen appearance but flight hardware.
Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo 11 — National Air and Space Museum · Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo — National Air and Space Museum · Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (object 1991-436) · Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space — NASA Spinoff · Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space — Scientific American (20.12.2006) · The space pen became the space pen 50 years ago — TechCrunch (18.10.2018) · Fisher Space Pen: How a Boulder City company became NASA's only certified space pen — Boulder City Review (02.07.2026)
Scale
not metThe threshold is hundreds of millions of units cumulatively FOR THE MODEL. I found no cumulative figure for the AG7 alone — not from the manufacturer, the press, or institutional documents. Available figures are either brand-wide or in the hundreds of units. Brand-wide: ABC News (26 June 2018) reports 65 workers in Boulder City making up to 30,000 pens a day — but that covers a range of more than 85 styles, not the AG7, so it is brand-level at best. The confirmed model-level numbers are tiny by this rubric's standard: 400 units ordered by NASA (AP report, February 1968) and 100 units bought by the USSR in 1969. I deliberately do not multiply daily or annual output by the number of years — that would be my arithmetic rather than a source, which the rubric disallows. The criterion fails by several orders of magnitude.
US-made Fisher Space Pens celebrating 50 years of space travel — ABC News (26.06.2018) · Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space — Scientific American (20.12.2006)
Enthusiast canon
not metThe requirement: at least two independent editorial outlets, specific dated articles, sustained multi-year presence — for the AG7, not for the Fisher line. I found one qualifying outlet: Everyday Carry's "10 Best Write-Anywhere Pens" roundup, dated 11 June 2024, which ranks the Fisher AG7 Astronaut Pen at number one as "the original write-anywhere pen". I could not close a second. Gear Patrol has an AG7 piece tied to Artemis II, but it is product news and the page is Cloudflare-blocked, so I do not count it. Crucially, The Pen Addict — the largest editorial archive in this community — carries Fisher reviews from 2010 through 2026 (Bullet, Backpacker, Cerakote, Stowaway) but not a single dedicated AG7 review. The remaining AG7 coverage is one-person blogs (Pens and Planes, Unsharpen, BestLeather) and retailer catalogues (JetPens, Pen Store, KnifeCenter, The Pen Company), which the rubric explicitly excludes as distribution evidence. Conclusion: the enthusiast canon within the Fisher family centres on the Bullet 400; the AG7 appears there more as a historical curiosity than as a standing recommendation from two independent editorial teams.
10 Best Write-Anywhere Pens — Everyday Carry (aktualizacja 11.06.2024) · Fisher AG7 Review — Pens and Planes
Practice influence
metprimary sourceMet through (c) institutional adoption, at model level. After its own testing at the Manned Spacecraft Center (now Johnson Space Center), NASA adopted the AG7 for crewed flight: the agency names the model explicitly ("He called the result the AG7, for anti-gravity") and states the pens have been used on every crewed NASA mission since Apollo 7 (October 1968), with dozens currently aboard the ISS. Independently of NASA, science press (Scientific American) documents the procurement decision: 400 units ordered for the Apollo program, followed by 100 units and 1,000 cartridges bought by the USSR for Soyuz flights. This is purchase and deployment as standard mission equipment, not anecdote and not a review. The Smithsonian NASM also holds a flown "Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo 11", but the museum pages returned 403, so I do not cite them as verified. A parts market or mod culture around the AG7 itself was not pursued further, since route (c) already satisfies the criterion.
Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space — NASA · Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space — Scientific American · Space Pens — NASA Spinoff
Evidence outside the score
Applies to the product line or the brand, not to this model. Does not count toward the score.
- Design recognition evidence applies to: the product line
The design recognition in the Fisher family belongs to the Bullet #400, not the AG7. The manufacturer's own site states that the chrome Bullet Space Pen (#400) is in MoMA's permanent collection as a symbol of elegant industrial American design, and vice-president Matt Fisher repeats this in the local press in May 2026. I could not open a MoMA collection record with an object number (moma.org blocks automated access), so this remains a manufacturer self-declaration echoed by the press — hence weak. The Bullet is a different construction: non-retractable, short, cap-posted, so the evidence does not transfer to the retractable AG7. This is exactly the kind of evidence that gets misattributed to "the space pen" in general circulation.
- Cultural footprint evidence applies to: the product line
A fictional role on television: the Seinfeld episode "The Pen" (season 3, episode 20), where a space pen drives the plot. The manufacturer confirms it was the Space Pen featured in that episode. Neither the manufacturer nor the episode identifies the model, so I attach this at line level rather than to the AG7, even though it circulates as evidence for "the space pen".
Where to buy
We do not list prices. We list a market tier and the date each link was last checked.
- Fisher Space Pen (spacepen.com)USmanufacturerverified 08/11/2026
Manufacturer's own store (Boulder City, Nevada). Its shipping page states shipping is exclusively within the United States; non-US buyers are directed to the international distributors page. Engraving and ink-colour options available.
- Twoje PióroPLspecialistverified 08/11/2026
Kraków-based fine-writing shop with two brick-and-mortar stores (ul. Skotnicka 175, ul. Kilińskiego 2). Declared dispatch within 24-48 hours.
- Demilitar.plPLspecialistverified 08/11/2026
Polish militaria/outdoor retailer (ul. Pokoju 21, Gródków). Product card flags limited remaining stock. The same seller also operates on Allegro.
- Pen StoreEUspecialistverified 08/11/2026
Swedish specialist pen shop serving multiple EU markets plus the UK, with EU-wide shipping. English-language interface available.
- The Pen CompanyUKspecialistverified 08/11/2026
UK retailer based in Aston, Hertfordshire. Advertises worldwide shipping and 14-day returns; the storefront localises to Polish currency when opened from Poland. Engraving service offered.
- Goldspot PensUSspecialistverified 08/11/2026
US fine-writing specialist. Footer links to a dedicated International Shipping page and the storefront localises to Polish currency; the product page also offers local pickup at Goldspot. Item marked as suitable for engraving.
Related models
Sources
- 01Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo — National Air and Space Museum (A19700109000)
museum · accessed 08/11/2026
3-D: 13.2 x 1.3cm (5 3/16 x 1/2 in., 1/16lb.)
- 02Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (1991-436)
museum · accessed 08/11/2026
patented 1965 (#3,285,228: Anti-Gravity Pen) developed by Paul C. Fisher
- 03
- 04Space Pen — Wikipedia
other · accessed 08/11/2026
forced out by compressed nitrogen at a pressure of nearly 310 kPa
- 05Original Astronaut Space Pen (#AG7) — spacepen.eu
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
solid brass with an extremely hard chrome plating
- 06AG7 Original Astronaut Space Pen — Sporty's Pilot Shop
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
Measures about 5"l x .375" in dia.
- 07Fisher Space Pen AG-7 Astronaut Pen Ballpoint Pen — The Pen Company
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
Length: 128mm
- 08
- 09
- 10Fisher Space Pen: How a Boulder City company became NASA's only certified space pen — Boulder City Review
press · accessed 08/11/2026
Founder Paul Fisher, who had started Fisher Pen Company in 1948
- 11Fisher Space Pen Pressurized Ballpoint PR (F, M, B) Refill — The Pen Refill Guide
community · accessed 08/11/2026
88.9mm (3.5″)
- 12Fisher SPR4 Black Ink Medium Point Space Pen Pressurized Cartridge — Tactical Wear
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
1.1mm Ball
- 13Fisher Space Pen (Pressurized Cartridges) Refills — Zero Hour EDC
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
a tungsten carbide ball and stainless steel point
- 14Fisher Space Pen Ink Refill (Pressurized Refill) — Dapper Design
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
PR4 and SPR4 are used for the same refill (Black Medium)
- 15Fisher Astronaut Space Pen AG7 Review — BestLeather.org
community · accessed 08/11/2026
roughly 30 grams or a hair over an ounce
- 16PR4 Black Medium Original Fisher Space Pen Pressurized Refill — spacepen.eu
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
-34°C to +121°C (-30°F to +250°F)
- 17Fisher Space Pen AG7 Original Astronaut Ballpoint Pen — Bertram's Inkwell
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
constructed of all brass and steel components
- 18Fisher AG7 Review — Pens and Planes
community · accessed 08/11/2026
the top button to deploy the refill and a side button to retract
- 19Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo 11 — National Air and Space Museum
museum · accessed 08/11/2026
The Fisher Pen Company produced this data recording pen for the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969. With a nitrogen pressurized ink cartridge, this model AG-7 could be used to write in the reduced gravity of space. NASA attached a velcro square to allow attachment to the inside of the spacecraft or other items so the pen did not get lost. […] Inventory Number A19720651000 […] Credit Line Transferred from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration […] Type PERSONAL EQUIPMENT-Miscellaneous
- 20Pen, Ball Point, AG-7, Apollo — National Air and Space Museum
museum · accessed 08/11/2026
This pen is identical to those carried aboard Apollo flights 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. It is a "space pen" and is able to be used in space at any orientation. […] Transferred to the National Air and Space Museum from NASA in 1970. […] Inventory Number A19700109000 […] Credit Line Gift of the Fisher Pen Company
- 21Fisher Space Pen, model AG7 — Science Museum Group Collection (object 1991-436)
museum · accessed 08/11/2026
ball-point pen, Fisher Space Pen, model AG7, (the Astronaut Pen or Anti-Gravity pen) as used by Neil Armstrong on Apollo 11, 1969, with tungsten carbide tip, hermetically sealed and pressurised ink reservoir, patented 1965
- 22US3285228A — Anti-gravity pen (Google Patents)
patent · accessed 08/11/2026
Anti-gravity pen […] Inventor Paul C Fisher […] Filing date 1965-05-19 […] Publication date 1966-11-15 […] Status Expired - Lifetime
- 23Original Astronaut Space Pen (item AG7) — Fisher Space Pen (archived 19.11.2025)
manufacturer · accessed 08/11/2026
In 1967, after over two years of rigorous testing by NASA, the Space Pen was selected for use by the astronauts of Apollo 7 and has been used on all manned space flights since. The overall design of the Original Astronaut Pen has not changed in over 50 years, and the pen that you buy today, except for several minor aesthetic changes, is nearly identical to the one taken to the moon in 1969.
- 24Our Story — Fisher Space Pen (archived 2025)
manufacturer · accessed 08/11/2026
Yes, our chrome Bullet Space Pen ( #400 ) is in the permanent collection at New York's Museum of Modern Art as a symbol of elegant, industrial American design. And yes, it was the Space Pen featured in the Seinfeld episode entitled 'The Pen'.
- 25Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space — NASA Spinoff
other · accessed 08/11/2026
The pens have been used on every crewed NASA mission since Apollo 7 – dozens are currently on the International Space Station.
- 26Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space — Scientific American (20.12.2006)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
According to an Associated Press report from February 1968, NASA ordered 400 of Fisher's antigravity ballpoint pens for the Apollo program. […] A year later, the Soviet Union ordered 100 pens and 1,000 ink cartridges to use on their Soyuz space missions.
- 27Sixty years after the pressurized ink patent, Boulder City's Space Pen facility stays true to its roots — VEGAS INC (25.05.2026)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
The Fisher Pen Company, as it was originally called, launched following World War II with its first chrome bullet space pen — a ballpoint that's unique industrial design makes it the company's leading seller to this day and earned it a permanent spot in the Museum of Modern Art, Matt Fisher said. […] Fisher Space Pen is celebrating another milestone anniversary: that of the patent for Paul Fisher's sealed and pressurized ink cartridge, which was filed 60 years ago in 1966.
- 28The Write Stuff: Fisher marks 50th anniversary of space pen — Boulder City Review (17.08.2016)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
The Anti-Gravity 7 pen was aboard the first manned Apollo mission in 1968 and NASA has been a customer since then.
- 29Fisher Space Pen: How a Boulder City company became NASA's only certified space pen — Boulder City Review (02.07.2026)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
remains the only pen certified for use in space
- 30US-made Fisher Space Pens celebrating 50 years of space travel — ABC News (26.06.2018)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
The pens are made in Boulder City, Nev., about 30 miles outside of Las Vegas, and 65 workers make up to 30,000 pens a day.
- 3150 Years Later: The pen that saved Apollo 11 — ABC News (12.07.2019)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
If it weren't for a small felt-tipped pen and the quick thinking of the astronauts, the outcome of the Apollo 11 mission could have ended in disaster. […] The pen, seen here, used to fix the broken switch and bring Apollo 11 astronauts back to Earth, is on display at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA.
- 32All-Weather Pen Refill No. 37R — Rite in the Rain
manufacturer · accessed 08/11/2026
CARTRIDGE: Pressurized, performs in temperatures from -30F to 250F, under water (up to 35 ft) […] REFILL FEATURES: Plastic Parker® style pen retrofit adapter
- 33Space Pen — Wikipedia
community · accessed 08/11/2026
Standard Space Pen refills can be used in any pen able to take a standard Parker-type ballpoint refill, using the small plastic adapter that is supplied with each refill.
- 3410 Best Write-Anywhere Pens — Everyday Carry (aktualizacja 11.06.2024)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
1 – Fisher AG7 Astronaut Pen […] Key Features Timeless, classic design The original write-anywhere pen Fun to use deployment and retraction mechanism
- 35Fisher Space Pen Inducted into Space Foundation's 2021 Space Technology Hall of Fame — SpaceNews (10.08.2021)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
Fisher Space Pen Co. will be inducted as an organization, and Paul C. Fisher, founder of the company and inventor of the revolutionary Fisher Space Pen, will be inducted posthumously as an individual.
- 36The space pen became the space pen 50 years ago — TechCrunch (18.10.2018)
press · accessed 08/11/2026
Walt Cunningham, Wally Schirra and Donn Eisele took the pens aboard with them for the Apollo 7 mission, which launched on October 11, 1968, and they served them well over the next 11 days in orbit.
- 37Fisher AG7 Review — Pens and Planes
community · accessed 08/11/2026
The design of the pen isn't out of this world, but it is a timeless, and classic design. I think it could safely be called a retro design at this point, because the design hasn't changed much, if at all, over the years.
- 38AG7 Fisher Space Pen — Luna Replicas
retailer · accessed 08/11/2026
The current model (NASA P/N SEB12100051-207 and -208) with side button has been produced unchanged since 1970 and used continuously since Skylab I.
- 39Space Pens, Pencils, and How NASA Takes Notes in Space — NASA
other · accessed 08/12/2026
He called the result the AG7, for anti-gravity, and sent several to NASA. … The pens have been used on every crewed NASA mission since Apollo 7.
- 40Fact or Fiction?: NASA Spent Millions to Develop a Pen that Would Write in Space — Scientific American
press · accessed 08/12/2026
NASA ordered 400 of Fisher's antigravity ballpoint pens for the Apollo program
- 41Space Pens — NASA Spinoff
other · accessed 08/12/2026
NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, now Johnson Space Center in Houston, tested the pens extensively.