Fisher Space Pen Co. (asi/54423) is inking a new chapter in the story of space exploration – literally.

The Boulder City, NV-based promotional products supplier has debuted the new Artemis Space Pen Series to celebrate the 53^rd anniversary of the company’s pens being used on space missions. The series also honors the Artemis Lunar Exploration Program, a United States-led spaceflight initiative with a primary goal of returning humans to the moon by the year 2025. NASA’s Artemis logo is emblazoned on the pen series.

The 775-ART White Plastic Barrel Retractable Space Pen is part of the new pen series from Fisher Space Pen.

“Fisher Space Pen is used on every NASA-crewed space mission as well as on the International Space Station,” said Matt Fisher, vice president of Fisher Space Pen Co. “Our new Artemis Space Pen Series honors the space pioneers of NASA’s Apollo Program and looks to the future of space exploration on the Moon, Mars and beyond.”

The Artemis Series features: M4B-ART Matte Black Retractable Space Pen; 400B-ART Matte Black Bullet Space Pen; and 775-ART White Plastic Barrel Retractable Space Pen. Promo products distributors can source the pens and have them feature client branding.

The series builds on Fisher’s long-running role in space exploration. When crewed space missions began, astronauts had a problem finding writing instruments that would function properly and safely in space. The ink in regular ballpoint pens wouldn’t flow in zero gravity.

The late Paul C. Fisher, who was then president of the Fisher Pen Company and had been manufacturing ballpoint pens since 1948, took on the challenge to create a pen that would work in zero gravity. After spending over $1 million of his own money and undertaking years of research, he developed his patented pressurized ink cartridge that keeps solvents from evaporating and allows ink to flow in zero gravity.

Every Fisher Space Pen is equipped with a patented pressurized cartridge that allows it to write upside down, under water, in extreme temperatures from -30° to +250° F (-35° to +121° Celsius), over almost any surface, and three times longer than the average ballpoint pen.

Given the pen’s properties, the writing instruments have flown on every NASA-crewed space mission since Apollo 7, including the SpaceX Crew Dragon Missions to the International Space Station. The company also, of course, sells the pens within the promotional products market, enabling end-buyers to align their brands with an invention and company that stands for ingenuity and excellence, advocates say.

Beyond its practical applications, the Space Pen is also a cultural icon. Part of the permanent design collection in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Space Pen is also displayed at the Smithsonian and Space Center. In addition, it has inspired or been featured in television shows that range from Seinfeld to Mad Men to Gilmore Girls.