Jul 31, 2020 | Fun Historical Facts
A $2.7 billion NASA rover, Perseverance, blasted off into clear skies over Florida’s Cape Canaveral yesterday (Thursday, July 30th) atop an Atlas V rocket, as The Washington Post and The Curious report. The launch marks the start of a nearly seven-month journey to...
Nov 14, 2015 | Entertainment, Fun Historical Facts
November 14, 1969. Lightning strikes the mighty Saturn 5 rocket carrying the crew of Apollo 12 as it was steadily ascending into the Florida sky. Sixteen seconds later, proving an old saying wrong, a second bolt of lightning struck the spacecraft. Still, the mission...
