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“I felt I was an accepted team member. It was a great experience and a unique opportunity.”

Ruth Ann Strunk, a math major, was hired in 1968 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center as an acceptance checkout equipment software engineer. She monitored the work of contractors who wrote the computer programs designed to check out the command module, lunar module and the Apollo J mission experiments. These experiments were conducted aboard the service modules on Apollo 15, 16 and 17 by the command module pilots. 

“I am proud of the advancement and the number of women who are working and enjoy working here,” Strunk said. “It was a wonderful opportunity NASA afforded me during Apollo that I have been able to use ever since.”

Remember the women who made #Apollo50th possible.

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Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

There’s an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, the sheer pressure, of dealing with dangerous and scary situations? Retired colonel Chris Hadfield paints a vivid portrait of how to be prepared for the worst in space (and life) – and it starts with walking into a spider’s web. Watch for a special space-y performance.

Bill Gates once released a jar full of mosquitos into the audience during a TED talk on malaria, stating “There’s no reason only poor people should have the experience.”

We know more about the surfaces of Mars and the moon than we do about the bottom of our oceans. Source  Source 2  Source 3

“Everything, even something as mundane as getting out of the car can be fun if you find a right game.” - James Veitch

Nikola Tesla once paid an overdue hotel bill with a ‘working model’ of his ‘death beam’. He warned the staff never to open it, describing it as a war-ending particle weapon that could stop invading armies and make warfare pointless. 

After his death in 1943, someone finally pried the box open and found nothing but a bunch of harmless old electrical components. 

(Source, Source 2)