Interesting facts about NASA (part 2)

1. As part of its personnel training program, NASA often shows the Hollywood film “Armageddon”, and then asks its employees to identify as many scientific errors and mistakes in the viewed material as possible. There are at least 168.

2. It is a myth that NASA spent millions of dollars to make a special space pen, while Soviet cosmonauts just used a simple pencil.

3. NASA will notify you every time the International Space Station flies over your city if you subscribe to its notifications.

4. In 1991, Spacewatch discovered an alien body near the Earth, now the astrophysical data transmission system of NASA considers this phenomenon as a possible alien sensor that was observed in the immediate vicinity of our planet. This sensor will return to Earth orbit in 2041.

5. Ted Roberts, a NASA intern, spent 7 years in a federal prison after having sex with his girlfriend on a bed filled with stolen sample rocks brought from the Moon.