Montegrappa NASA Rollerball Pen - Atlantis

Retired - limited stock available Space Shuttle's clean, futuristic line welcomes the Atlantis writing instruments in different modes designed by Montegrappa! When the Space Shuttle blasted off on its maiden mission in the spring of 1981, it marked the beginning of a new era in space exploration. Giuseppe Aquila remembers the moment vividly: “I was eleven and stayed up with my brothers to watch the launch,” Montegrappa’s owner reminisces. “It seemed like something out of Star Wars!” Without doubt, NASA’s first reusable spacecraft design was a sight for impressionable young eyes. Launches would soon become commonplace, but the Space Shuttle would go on to define an era, providing a platform for international scientific endeavour. Its legacy includes the International Space Station and Hubble Space Telescope, but in 1992 the shuttle Atlantis captured imaginations in Aquila’s homeland, when it sent Italy’s first astronaut into space. Thirty years after Franco Malerba’s historic mis