The US Defense budget is 40x bigger than NASA's. It's surprising we actually went to the moon instead of blowing it up.

the fowled experiment scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. british engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new high speed trains. arrangements were made. but when the gun was fired, th…

NASA's JUNO Probe finally reached Jupiter after ~5 year journey exactly halfway to its journey to Uranus.

Astronaut Scott Kelly recently came back from the International Space Station and did an interview. Wow, he's such an amazing person, he's really down to earth.