An agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.
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Is this video from NASA proof that LENR is a real effect?
This video was hosted on a nasa.gov domain name. It talks about Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), also known as Cold Fusion.
On this site it is claimed that this is proof that LENR works and that there has been a previous cover up by e.g. Big…
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Did NASA's STEREO spacecraft capture an image of a cloaked UFO near Mercury?
Apparently on Dec. 1st a video camera on board a NASA satelite captured a "UFO" during a solar flare, near Mercury (skip ahead to 33 seconds for the relevant footage).
Is it an alien spaceship? The shape is kind of odd looking, similar to the…
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Does NASA use whale oil in the Hubble Telescope?
The History Channel documentary America, the Story of Us states that NASA uses whale oil in the Hubble Space Telescope.
Is there any solid evidence to confirm or dispute this claim?
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Does NASA have a high ROI?
One of the oft-cited reasons for funding space exploration is the high return on investment, in terms of boosting the economy.
For example
Studies estimate that for every $1 the U.S. government spends on NASA, the economy is boosted by $7-$14. That…
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Are there 263 Sri Lankans working for NASA?
This newspaper article from sundaytimes.lk quotes a statement made by a politician in Sri Lanka.
Among the 2,400 scientists at NASA, 263 scientists are Sri Lankan nationals according to Minister of Science, Professor Tissa Vitharana.
Can anybody…
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Is Mary Ann Schinfield a real person?
One day, while bouncing around some alternate history and conspiracy theory videos I came across a reference to a man named Drunvalo Melchizedek. I was curious about some of his work and decided to check out one of his books The Ancient Secret of…
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Can you use a normal Ball Point pen in space?
Similar to this question Did NASA invest a million dollars in the research of a space pen, when the USSR simply used a pencil? , but on another claim not asked/answered in the other answer.
When NASA first started sending astronauts into space,…
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Was this pile of code written by a single team of software engineers?
This article reads:
[This is a] picture of her next to the code she and her colleagues wrote for the Apollo 11 guidance computer that made the moon landing possible. [..] To clarify, there are no other kinds of printouts, like debugging printouts,…
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Has NASA discovered a possible "warp-like" drive using the EmDrive?
A number of stories have been breaking on the internet from various sources (e.g. The Escapist, Sputnik News, The Daily Galaxy, IFL Science! etc.) with claims along the following from The Escapist,
Skip ahead to this month, where we have a…
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Does the STS103-734-73 NASA picture show another spacecraft?
UFO News reported in July 2014 that an older image taken of the Hubble Telescope is on a spacecraft (a "craft").
The image was taken in December 1999,, on STS-103, a repair mission on which Space Shuttle Discovery flew to the highest-ever orbit in…
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Was an unidentified spaceship recorded by the International Space Station, August 4, 2014?
This video, kinda went viral, the description says
Date of sighting: August 4, 2014 Location of sighting: International
Space Station (ISS)
Hey everyone, I was watching the live cam and caught this glowing disk
in the distance. I took a…
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Does the sound of the Sun oscillate around 528 Hz?
There are some people that believe that a 528Hz tone has healing properties, for instance this website and this one. One of the claims behind this frequency is, from the first source:
NASA scientists recorded the sound of the sun, that can be heard…
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Would it cost $370 million (probably more now) for NASA to move to SI unit of measurements?
Back in 2009 there was some traction for conversion to SI units completely.
According to this article,
NASA recently calculated that converting the relevant drawings, software and documentation to the “International System” of units (SI) would…
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Did Jim Lovell accidentally swear at Mission Control?
The movie Apollo 13 famously depicts a tense scene from relatively early on in the accident where the astronauts were having diffucilty controlling the space craft due to the centre of gravity being off.
The dialogue in the scene in question is as…
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Does this video show a sonic boom through a sun dog?
This YouTube video purports to be of a rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center in 2010.
It shows a rocket reaching the speed of sound, and creating a sonic boom at the same time as the rocket passes through a "sun dog", and the resultant ripples…
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