In 1989, NASA studied house plants as a means of providing clean and pure air for their space station. They found Peace Lilies and Florist’s Chrysanthemums to be the best all-around at filtering the air. – WTF Fun Facts
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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 old woman for possessing and attempting to sell a paperweight containing a moon rock the size of a rice grain. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-woman-detained-moon-rock-20170413-story.html
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 on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-challenges-of-spacewalks
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 Juno space probe sent to monitor Jupiter is named after his wife. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-galileo-sex-joke-2016-7
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 conductive and can cause short circuits and potentially fires. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Spiders Webs
Spiders can get high and build very different kinds of webs while on weed, caffeine, mescaline and LSD. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51967/what-does-marijuana-do-spiders
WTF Fun Fact – A/C vs. The Moon
The U.S. military spent over US$20 billion a year on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s more than NASA’s budget. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2011/06/25/137414737/among-the-costs-of-war-20b-in-air-conditioning
WTF Fact – Deceased In Space
There are only 3 human beings that have died outside Earth’s atmosphere. They are the three cosmonauts who died aboard the Soyuz 11 in 1971. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/23/only_three_humans_have_died_in_space_the_story_of_soyuz_11.html
nasa estimated the near earth asteroid eros
NASA estimated the near earth asteroid Eros contains precious metals including gold and platinum worth $20,000 billion.