Questions tagged [nasa]
An agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Was the Space Shuttle built to steal other nations' satellites from orbit?
Various locations on the internet claim that the Space Shuttle design was driven by a need to be able to conduct a mission that would steal another country's satellites from orbit, usually the USSR.
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Did America change size in NASA photos over the last 50 years?
Caption: Come on NASA* make your mind up, what does the Earth really look like?
*All images are official NASA pictures of Earth, as released through the mainstream media outlets and major news ...
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Did Neil Armstrong write such a letter to a skeptic?
Today, I saw a tweet with an image that claims to contain the answer of Neil Armstrong to a teacher that was skeptical of the moon landing (see below).
Of course it's not the image of a real letter, ...
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Do Milankovitch Cycles fully explain climate change?
The Milankovitch Cycles is the effect on the climate caused by variations in astronomical movements by the Earth relative to the Sun.
A recent Natural News article attributes of the recent effects of ...
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Did Jim Lovell accidentally swear at Mission Control? [closed]
The movie Apollo 13 famously depicts a tense scene from relatively early on in the accident where the astronauts were having diffucilty controlling the space craft due to the centre of gravity being ...
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Was Opportunity's last message to Earth "My battery is low and it's getting dark"?
On February 13 2019, NASA announced that Opportunity - a Mars rover launched in 2003 with an intended longevity of three months - was likely to be dead.
In the wake of this event, and the outpouring ...
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Neil Armstrong: “One small step for man” or “one small step for a man”?
Today on Facebook the Science Museum (London) posted:
#OTD in 1930 American astronaut and aeronautical engineer Neil Armstrong was born.
In July 1969, Armstrong and Apollo 11 pilot Buzz Aldrin ...
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Did NASA use CGI for the Apollo mission trainers?
The Ohio State "Press Book", Computer Graphics and Computer Animation: A Retrospective Overview talks about the training simulators used on the Apollo projects:
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Does this video show a sonic boom through a sun dog?
This YouTube video purports to be of a rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center in 2010.
It shows a rocket reaching the speed of sound, and creating a sonic boom at the same time as the rocket ...
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Does the sound of the Sun oscillate around 528 Hz?
There are some people that believe that a 528Hz tone has healing properties, for instance this website and this one. One of the claims behind this frequency is, from the first source:
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Are these bugs baffling entomologists with their appearance and behaviour?
Theffeed Tech have one example of a number of articles showing a video of six insects dancing in a synchronised way.
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These weird looking bugs appeared in a house in Houston, Texas.
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Does NASA have a high ROI?
One of the oft-cited reasons for funding space exploration is the high return on investment, in terms of boosting the economy.
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Studies estimate that for every $1 the U.S. government ...
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Is Kim Jong UN a space alien according to new NASA evidence? [closed]
According to Sunday Sport newspapper (front page from 21st May 2017), based on recently leaked top secret documents and conclusion from a top NASA and Pentagon suggests that 'Kim is an ET sent as an "...
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Did NASA director Charles Bolden claim that an alien invasion will happen soon?
Russian news site "Federal News Agency" (FAN) today published "Директор NASA заявил, что до вторжения инопланетян осталось неско��ько месяцев":
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Did Apollo Moon landing program cost less than lipstick used by American women during same 11 years?
On a recent Dan Carlin's "Common Sense" podcast, James Burke claimed that Apollo program to land the man on the Moon cost less than what American women spent on lipstick in the same period of time.
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