5 Interesting Facts About NASA (You May Not Know)
NASA is definitely a bottomless source of news. There might still be things you haven’t heard yet, so we have listed five interesting facts down below.
The first lunar meal
One of the most significant dates in the entire history of mankind was July 21 when members of the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Olrin, landed on the moon.
The event was celebrated by the astronauts themselves with the first meal on the moon, and they ate traditional American food: bacon, peaches, sugar cookies, pineapple and grapefruit drink and coffee.
Missile building
NASA’s rocket assembly building is one of the largest in the world by area. It comfortably fits the largest rocket of today.
It is 160 meters high and 157 meters wide. The door of the building is also gigantic and is 139 meters high.
Of course, in accordance with their height, they are also massive, and therefore not very easily mobile. It takes 45 minutes to open. Employees of the building say that inside, near the ceiling, they noticed rain clouds when it was humid outside.
Imaginary children’s toys
Of course, there are many things invented by NASA, but Velcro is not it.
But it is a water gun.
NASA scientist Lonnie Johnson came up with the idea for the water-spraying gun while working on an idea for a heat pump that would use water instead of Freon. After that, as some articles say, he worked on stealth bombers.
You get paid to sleep
NASA paid $19,000 for 24 test participants who had to sleep, that is, spend two months in bed.
The goal was to examine how the body changes in weightlessness (which is one of the major problems of spaceflight).
Life insurance
There is information that Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins, i.e. the three astronauts who flew to the moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission, intended to pay for life insurance with no insurance company.
Therefore, they signed several envelopes and postcards with the dates of their launch into space and landing on the moon and then distributed these postcards and letters to friends so that they, in the event of a failed moon flight, would sell them. They would later use that money to support their families.
Space sickness
Some astronauts also have a kind of seasickness that occurs due to the rocking of the ship in the sea.
According to some data, as many as half of the astronauts experience such ailments, which are manifested through nausea, headache, vomiting and similar ailments.
It is said that former senator and astronaut Joke Gran began to feel these symptoms even before he flew into space, and upon his return he had distinct problems with walking.
He became so famous, that astronauts began to informally use his name to measure this astronaut disease, grading it by the severity of symptoms one has.
