#NASA

Stories tagged “NASA” in the Weird Science History archive — 18 stories connected by this topic.

• The Head Cold That Made Apollo 7 Refuse Its Helmets
• The Space Tomato That Vanished for Nearly a Year — and the Astronaut Accused of Eating It
• The Astronaut Ice Cream That Astronauts (Probably) Never Ate
• The Woodpeckers That Grounded a Space Shuttle — and the Plastic Owls NASA Sent to Guard It
• The Senator Who Went to Space and Came Back as a Unit of Nausea
• The Airstream Trailer That Was Supposed to Save Earth From Moon Germs
• The Flake of Chipped Paint That Made a $1.5 Billion Telescope Nearsighted
• The Moon Golf Shot That Went 'Miles and Miles and Miles' — and Actually Went 40 Yards
• The Most Expensive Hyphen in History Was Not a Hyphen
• The Corned Beef Sandwich That Got NASA Hauled Before Congress
• The Million-Dollar Space Pen Myth — and the $128.89 Pencils NASA Actually Bought
• The Rocket Scientist Whose Leaky Fridge Idea Became the Super Soaker
• The Unit Mix-Up That Doomed a Mars Probe
• The Crash-Test Foam That Invented Your Mattress
• The Genesis Capsule That Crashed Because a Switch Was Installed Backward
• 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

Related topics: #microgravity #myths #space food #Space Shuttle #accidental invention #Australia #Cold War #engineering