Julie K
Screenwriter
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Viking 2 may have been sitting just a meter above the ice: story here
So close....
So close....
Those "certain customers" were NASA, and it is the molded plastic variety of velcro that took off. So no, its not a myth.
Everyone claims Velcro was invented by NASA. That was the myth I dispelled.
Toilet paper was invented a long long time ago. You're saying if NASA uses special toilet paper in the shuttle, that NASA invented toilet paper? I thought not.
I can't resist:
"Buy our super-soft non-abrasive anti-bacterial toilet paper with soft and tingly vapor action. Developed by NASA scientists for the manned shuttle missions, approved for the 2020 Mars Mission! The most innovative hygiene solution ever! And now with lemon-lime and strawberry flavours!"
Congress was a little cool to the idea of a $400-billion, thirty-year-long program.
They should have camouflaged it as a bloated social program or some obsolete defense equipment! As long as it might have a positive spin come re-election time they would pass it!
Thanks for the book title Jack. I'm going to check that one out. From what I read online the idea sounds plausible, but I'm hardly an expert in these areas. Who knows, if we are lucky maybe it will be the blueprint for the manned missions.