Science

After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the construction of the ISS was paused until the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on July 26th, 2005.

Several of Titan’s mountains are named for mountains from J. R. R. Tolkien literature (i.e. Moria Montes), and colles (collection of hills) are named after Tolkien’s characters (i.e. Arwen).

The 10% of the liver is fat.

The Earth, like all planets in space, is doomed to destruction.

Nicotine is a natural insecticide.

In the case of finding life on other planets, NASA established an Office of Planetary Protection.

NASA officially opened on October 1st, 1958.

Most fungi develop as hyphae, which are cylindrical, filamentous structures 2-10 µm in diameter and up to a few centimeters long.

Apollo 13 launched on April 11th, 1970, and was forced to cancel the landing on the lunar surface (precisely on the Fra Mauro site), because of the explosion of an oxygen tank.

Probably in 365 BC, the Chinese astronomer Gan De managed to observe Ganymede with the naked eye.