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Fascinating Facts About NASA - Part I

NASA is currently working on the development of a Star Trek style warp drive that could get astronotus to Alpha Centauri (second nearest star to the sun) in just 2 weeks.

A poll conducted in 1997 revealed that Americans thought NASAs funding accounted for 20% of the federal budget. In fact, NASA has received one cent or less per every tax dollar since 1975. At present, they receive $.005 cents per dollar.

Managers at NASA claimed that there was a 1 in 100,000 chance of a catastrophic failure aboard Challenger Spacecraft, but Richard Feynman (theoretical physicist) discovered that NASAs Engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe to be closer to 1 in 200.

The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist, who also helped in developing the Stealth Bomber for US Air Force and the Galileo mission to Jupiter for NASA

Neil Armstrongs NASA application was late by a week. If it werent for his friend, Dick Days effort to secretly slip his application it into the pile, he would have been rejected

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.

It is a myth that NASA spent millions of dollars producing the space pen while soviet astronauts simply used a pencil.

NASA will text you whenever the International Space Station passes overhead.

In 1991, Spacewatch discovered an artificial body near earth that has now been listed on the NASA Astrophysics data system as a possible alien probe that was observed in the vicinity of our planet.

Thad Roberts, a NASA intern, spent 7 years in federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed full of stolen moon rocks.

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