24 amazing facts you didn’t know about NASA

Armstrong is a household name, largely because of his walk on the Moon. But as Voice of America reported in the famed astronaut’s obituary, he almost didn’t get into NASA at all. Why? His application was a week late. It took the manoeuvrings of a friend on the inside to get his application moved to the pile of others still being considered.

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It’s been the dream of pretty much every Trekkie since Star Trek first aired in 1966 – and every fan has probably uttered the words “Beam me up, Scotty,” several million times. As Gizmodo reports, NASA is currently hard at work on a real-life warp drive. One of its researchers predicts that such a drive could get humans to Alpha Centauri, 4.4 light-years away, in two weeks’ time.

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Today, The Learning Channel (TLC) may be filled with shows like 90 Day Fiancé and Little People Big World but it was actually the brainchild of NASA and the US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. They co-founded the station back in the 1970s as a learning channel that was be distributed free of charge via a NASA satellite, reports Business Insider.

On September 11, 2019, NASA announced the Kepler space telescope had discovered a potentially habitable world some 110 light-years away. NASA has been looking for life elsewhere in our universe for decades – on Mars, on Titan, any place it can send a probe. This latest discovery, though, of water vapor and possibly clouds and rain on and around a distant planet, is a reminder of how vast our universe is, and how far we’ve come in exploring its nooks and crannies in NASA’s 61 years.

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Source: RD.com