My favourite story about the different approaches the Americans and Russians took to their space programs has to do with the problems of writing in zero-g. The US spent millions in research to come up with a pen that would do the job in micro gravity environments and trumpeted their success as one of the spin-offs of the Space Race.
The Russians in contrast solved the problem in a totally different way. They gave their cosmonauts...pencils.
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