Counting on Katherineby Helaine Becker tells the story of Katherine Johnson. As a child, Katherine skipped several grades and despite a lot of sexism and racism, she was able to save Apollo 13’s mission. Fly High, John Glennby Kathleen Krull celebrates John Glenn, who credited Katherine John...
10. Since few Apollo astronauts were willing to admit that they were a size “small”, the condom fittings for their space suits’ urine collection assemblies were sized “large”, “gigantic” and “humongous.”– Source 11. Male lobster’s bladders are in their heads, and when they fight...
You heard that right. TheBlack Deathwas a very deadly disease that decimated Europe for years, and it is still today the deadliest pandemic in history. But in Toulouse, Apollo, at the time of the Romans, was angrier than the disease. When soldiers plundered his temple, they were all struc...
13.Albert Einstein once received a letter from a girl lamenting that she couldn’t be a scientist because of her gender. He responded, “I do not mind that you are a girl, but the main thing is that you yourself do not mind. There is no reason for it.” Source & More 14.Scientist...
Interesting Facts about Earth: Space 1. Earth is a fast-moving spacecraft We’re living in a big,fast-moving (really fast!) spacecraft. Even when you’re resting on your armchair, you’re flying through space faster than the fastest human-made object ever built: around 1.3 million miles...
Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Flags. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Flags 1. The Bikini Atoll's flag is similar to the USA flag, but with black stars representing islands destroyed by nuclear testing, to serve as a reminder of the debt the US still ow
David Beazley(Python): The person who singlehandedly made me a Pythonista. Need I say more? He has a lot of low-level knowledge about Python and makes poking at the Python interpreter seem more fun than it actually is. Joe Armstrong(Erlang): One of the few people I actually had the ...
These are not ordinary foot prints. These are the footprints left by the astronauts of Apollo on the Moon mission and these will stay the same for about a 100 million years! Shocked! Well, it’s possible only because the Moon doesn’t have an atmosphere i.e. it has no wind and no ...
The cheetah (scientific name: Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat of the subfamily Felinae, which specialized for high speed. Cheetahs live in North and East Africa, and a few localities in Iran. Here are 20 amazing cheetah facts. 1. Cheetah is the fastest land animal on Earth ...
A red blood cell takes only about 20 seconds to make a complete circuit through your body. Iceland was chosen as the training ground for Apollo astronauts because it was the most “moonlike” surface. A polygon with 30 sides is a triacontagon. ...