Space

Stories filed under Space in the Weird Science History archive — 18 stories from the strange edge of science.

• The Teenager Who Sent Two Spiders to Spin Webs in Space
• The Time a Falling Space Station Got a $400 Littering Ticket
• The Year in Space That Turned Twin Astronauts Into a Living Experiment
• The Newspaper Hoax That Put Bat-People on the Moon
• The Pigeon Mess That Turned Out to Be the Echo of the Big Bang
• The Rocket That Exploded on Live TV and Got Called 'Kaputnik'
• The Spaceship That Was Supposed to Ride Atomic Bombs to Saturn
• The Graduate Student, the 'Little Green Men,' and the Nobel That Got Away
• The Million-Dollar Space Pen Myth — and the
  28.89 Pencils NASA Actually Bought
• The Crash-Test Foam That Invented Your Mattress
• The Element Discovered on the Sun 27 Years Before Anyone Found It on Earth
• The Farm Boy Who Discovered Pluto — and Now Sails Past It Forever
• The Genesis Capsule That Crashed Because a Switch Was Installed Backward
• Laika: The Moscow Stray Who Orbited Earth, and the Truth Hidden for 45 Years
• The Unit Mix-Up That Doomed a Mars Probe
• The Astronomer Who Spent Eleven Years at Sea to Watch Venus Cross the Sun — and Missed It Anyway
• The Astronomer Who Saw Canals on Mars That Weren't Real
• The Astronomer With a Metal Nose and a Beer-Drinking Elk

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