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Fascinating Facts About NASA - Part II

NASA will pay you $15,000 to lay in bed 24 hours a day for 90 days to measure the effects of zero gravity on your body.

A man named Gregory W. Nemitz claimed ownership of Asteroid 433 Eros, on which the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker landed in 2001. His company Orbital Development issued NASA a parking ticket for $20

Bill Nye (of the TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy) wanted to be an astronaut, but was rejected time and again by NASA.

NASA has discovered a waterworld planet about 40 light-years away from earth that might contain exotic materials such as hot ice and superfluid water.

The Learning Channel (TLC) was originally founded in 1972 by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in collaboration with NASA.

While filming his Victorian masterpiece, Barry Lyndon, Stanley Kubrick used lenses that were commissioned by NASA for the Apollo moon landings. Theses lenses allowed him to capture scenes lit only by candlelight.

NASA invented invisible braces, scratch resistant lenses, and much more

There is a large area over Brazil where the Earths magnetic field has weakened. This anomaly is called South Atlantic Anomaly.

The Apollo Astronauts were unable to qualify for life insurance and were not insured by NASA. They resorted to insurance autographs, signing just before their launch in the expectation that its value would skyrocket in the event of their deaths.

Mira is a massive dying star that is zipping through our universe shedding its matter, each bit of which may one day grow into a whole new individual star of its own. NASA has called it The Johnny Appleseed of The Universe.

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