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title: "Things You Didn't Know About NASA"  
description: "Founded in 1958 by President Eisenhower, NASA has become famous for its innovation and spacecrafts. But there are plenty of stories about NASA, here's 5 of them"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-10-09  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1270/things-you-didn-t-know-about-nasa  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["Space", "space science", "astronaut", "outer space", "NASA", "NASA scientists", "NASA space", "NASA space organization"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Things You Didn't Know About NASA

![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/de47ab5f-1306-499a-a84c-4c4a4376eeb6.jpeg) ![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/59405fd5-0553-4f0e-b1a1-d8dd3dbbc549.jpeg) Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to walk on the Moon on July 21, 1969 ![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/53e12ec9-211c-4e35-957f-2e4167c30e4b.jpeg) NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is the only facility to have an entire rocket assembled ![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/760a5eef-d837-4d38-9b95-89bc0b1b9b8e.jpeg) Astronauts sent to space can experience a similar kind of motion sickness known as space adaptation syndrome, or space sickness. ![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/aabcf741-76eb-4b6f-b0d2-3c60db60be91.jpeg) The spacesuits astronauts wear are great for spacewalks, but not so great if you suddenly develop an itch somewhere on your face. ![Things You Didn t Know About NASA](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d8456dd6-b58e-47c3-97d1-ae4ecacc74e5/images/7d6f6684-d69e-45e6-aeab-54824e0d52c4.jpeg) Velcro the NASA invention was inspired by children toys.

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