NASA’s Kepler mission, launched in 2009 has found 2,325 planet candidates and 1,284 were in a single finding, the largest to date.
NASA is estimated to have sent over 2200 animals into space including insects, pigs, monkeys, rats, rabbits and spiders, 2000 were sent on one mission STS-90 in 1998.
NASA has its own radio station called ‘Third Rock Radio,’ which plays Rock/Indie/Alternative music with NASA news items and mission updates embedded throughout.
The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist, who also helped in developing the Stealth Bomber for US Air Force and the Galileo mission to Jupiter for NASA.
When Texas was its own sovereign nation in the mid-1800s, it briefly had a diplomatic mission in Paris.
Two F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11. In the end, the flight’s passengers took the plane down.
In 1909, Teddy Roosevelt and his son went on a “conservation mission” to Africa on which they killed a whopping 512 animals.
In February 2006, the phrase “to understand and protect the home planet” was quietly removed from NASA’s official mission statement.
A Courthouse in Boise City, Oklahoma, was mistakenly bombed by the US Air Force during a WW2 training mission. The city preserved one unexploded bomb.
North Korea’s diplomatic mission to the UN has 1,300 unpaid NYC parking tickets going back to the 1990s, owing more than $156,000.
Unit 684 was a South Korean black-ops team of 31 convicted criminals whose mission was to kill North Korea’s premier Kim Il-sung. They mutinied, hijacked a bus, and were shot by the army or committed suicide.
wo F16 pilots went on a suicide mission to stop Flight 93 on 9/11. In the end, the flight’s passengers took the plane down.
Only female bees work. Males remain in the hive and literally do nothing, their only mission in life being to fertilize the queen bee on her maiden flight. For this purpose literally thousands of males are hatched, out of which only one or two mate with the queen. After they have served their function, the males are not allowed back into the hive but are left outside, where they starve to death.