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title: "Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions"  
description: "amazing facts about nasa------------------------------------------"  
author: "Amandeep Kaur"  
published: 2024-09-06  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/4614/surprising-facts-about-nasa-and-its-misssions  
category: "space science"  
tags: ["space", "research"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions

![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/a0b3d020-1a97-450d-a132-1ae71be5a816.jpeg) ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/c703a569-941b-4420-a3ae-4dafa4d483a5.jpeg) NASA was established on July 29, 1958 ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/75acec8c-65b4-49a8-8578-aaa8d1b9e3d7.jpeg) A building built for a rocket ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/0723db82-133a-4f94-9c5f-c77245b1796e.jpeg) The longest human duration in deep space was the 12.5 days ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/b6ef08c1-5988-4021-b4d6-1f25aa05f8ab.jpeg) The first American to Orbit the Earth was John Gleen ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/47c4e53a-a37c-4658-88cc-f97da23d6972.jpeg) NASA's Earth Science Division conducts research on Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Environmental Changes ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/24dba678-e0bd-40f5-a6ae-086f1c16d746.jpeg) NASA invents Kids toys ![Surprising Facts about NASA and its Misssions](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/acaba32a-31c9-41fe-ae5b-ba67a6577cf1/images/7bbb6395-1add-44d5-a298-6d8ea2e223fb.jpeg) The Apollo 11 mission, launched on July 16, 1969, marked the first crewed mission to land on the moon

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