1 . NASA often shows the Hollywood movie “Armageddon” as part of its management training program and then asks its new staff to identify as many scientific inaccuracies as they can. There are at least 168 of them.
2. It is a myth that NASA spent millions of dollars producing the space pen while soviet astronauts simply used a pencil.
3. NASA will pay you $15,000 to lay in bed 24 hours a day for 90 days to measure the effects of zero gravity on your body.
4. NASA has discovered a “waterworld” planet about 40 light-years away afrom earth that might contain exotic materials such as “hot ice” and “superfluid water.”
5. NASA is developing a new engine that can shorten a Mars mission to days. It is set to be tested in 2014.
6.Three men from Yemen sued NASA for trespassing on Mars. They claimed that they inherited the planet from their ancestors 3,000 years ago.
7. It takes NASA and Voyager I approximately 32 hours to communicate with each other, with a bandwidth of 115.2 kilobits per second.
8. NASA is building a bi-directional “Flying Wing” aircraft. It can fly forwards or sideways at full speed.
9.The potato has been studied by NASA as an important source of food for long manned space missions. It was found that the amount of potato plants needed to sustain one astronaut equaled the amount of potato plant required to process the air to breathe by one astronaut.
10. NASA recorded the radio signature of Earth and converted it to an audible “Earthsong” – You can hear it click here to listen.
