Top 10 about NASA !

1. NASA is the short form for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

2.NASA began to operate in 1958, one year after Sputnik 1 was launched by the Soviets. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in the world.

3.It was a NASA scientist that invented the Super Soaker squirt gun.

4. Three Yemen men sued NASA for trespassing on Mars by claiming they had inherited the planet thousands of years ago, from their ancient ancestors.

5.A person can't be recognized as an astronaut by NASA until they have traveled 50 miles from the surface of the earth.

6.NASA has a program for dealing with life on other planets, if it should be discovered, called the Office of Planetary Protection.

7.In 1972 a series of satellites were launched into space. Their purpose was to photograph the earth's surface from outer space.

8.NASA launched a space probe to Pluto in 2006. It was scheduled to arrive 9 years later.

9.There are U.S. and Russian astronauts aboard the International Space Station. They keep separate water supplies.

10.Voyager 1, a NASA probe, reached the outer edge of the solar system in 2010, it took 33 years to do so but this was only one of NASA’s incredible feats.