#NASA

Stories tagged “NASA” in the Weird Science History archive — 6 stories connected by this topic.

• 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 Crash-Test Foam That Invented Your Mattress
• The Genesis Capsule That Crashed Because a Switch Was Installed Backward
• The Unit Mix-Up That Doomed a Mars Probe

Related topics: #Skylab #1979 #1999 #arachnids #Australia #aviation-safety #cosmochemistry #engineering failure