WTF Fun Fact – Married Couple In Space Together
Astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis married in secret 9 months before their joint flight to the International Space Station … Read More & Source
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WTF Fun Fact – Paul Brown’s Squeeze Bottle Valve
Paul Brown invented the upside-down squeeze bottle valve in 1991 after 111 failed prototypes. He then sold his product to … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Space Capsule Parachute Packers
Only three people (Norma Cretal, Buzz Corey and Jimmy Calunga) in the USA were qualified to hand-pack the massive parachutes … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Space Station Flower Filtration
In 1989, NASA studied house plants as a means of providing clean and pure air for their space station. They … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – NASA Raids Denny’s
NASA’s Office of Inspector General once raided a Denny’s as part of a sting operation to bust a 75 year … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – NASA Sextant And Slide Rule
On NASA’s Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – NASA’s Juno Mission
NASA cleverly chose the name Juno for it’s Jupiter mission. Jupiter’s moons are named after the god’s many mistresses. The … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Space Pen
The specially created NASA Space Pen is used instead of a simple pencil because the graphite contained in pencils is … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Spiders Webs
Spiders can get high and build very different kinds of webs while on weed, caffeine, mescaline and LSD. – WTF … Read More & Source