10 Little-Known Facts About NASA

NASA is one of the most controversial organizations in the world. There are so many mysteries, half-truths, and outright cover ops surrounding them that you don’t know what to believe. Was the moon landing a hoax? Are aliens real? Is the Earth flat? No, probably, and good god, NO! But these aren’t the questions we’ll be asking today. It’s time for some little-known NASA facts!

11 years ago, in 2008, NASA scientists were given a task to make the most drag-resistant swimwear ever. And so they did. Now that swimsuit is banned in almost every swimming competition.

According to NASA’s “To-Do list”, they’re planning to send humans on Mars by 2030. Will Elon do it faster?

NASA has a special division called Office of Planetary Protection, in case we find life on another planet.

Your smart-watch is about 100,000x more powerful than the first computer NASA used to handle all calculations when we sent our fellow humans to the moon. The original CPU had 64 Kb of memory and operated at 0.043MHz.