‘TIL Astronaut Jack Schmidt Discovered He Was Allergic to Moon Dust, Which Is a Thing….’ "Jack Schmidt, loading an epipen and climbing back into the shuttle: Moon’s an allergen."
‘NASA Just Dropped New Planet Pics’ A July 2022 Facebook post leveraged interest in NASA's JWST to spread a set of old photos and composites as images that the agency had "just dropped."
NASA’s Climate Spiral As much of the Northern Hemisphere endured a brutal heat wave, purported video of "NASA's climate spiral" circulated on social media.
Astronaut Charlie Duke’s Family Photo on the Moon Social media posts about astronaut Charlie Duke leaving a family photo on the moon circulated, fifty years later.
‘Astronaut Mark Kelly Once Smuggled a Full Gorilla Suit Aboard the International Space Station …’ A story about "Astronaut Mark Kelly" purportedly "smuggling" a gorilla suit aboard the ISS went viral in July 2022.
Was Big Bird Supposed to Be on the Challenger? A long-circulating claim that the Sesame Street character was supposed to be on the ill-fated Challenger shuttle re-emerged in June 2022.
‘NASA’ Warns Asteroid Headed Toward Earth? A phony asteroid warning attributed to NASA circulated in May 2022.
‘NASA Has Outdone Themselves, This Is an Image of the Entire Observable Universe’ It seems like attributing anything to NASA in a congratulatory tone is a recipe for social media engagement.
Was William Shatner the First ‘Star Trek’ Actor to Reach Outer Space? Fans of Dr. Mae Jemison quickly noted that she went to "the final frontier" decades earlier.
‘Closest Pic of Saturn from Inside Its Rings by the Cassini Spacecraft Two Weeks Ago’ A viral post purportedly shows the "closest pic of Saturn from inside its rings," captured "two weeks ago."
