Nasa Fun Facts, Quotes and Tweets
20th November 2014
Quote: "I get to go to Houston. I don't know what they're gonna let me do; I'm gonna try to do everything." Jessica Chastain is primed for her NASA training in preparation for her new role as an astronaut in Ridley Scott's Martian.
25th July 2014
Fact: The sci-fi expert who helped director Stanley Kubrick create the groundbreaking imagery of his movie 2001: A Space Odyssey has died. Former top NASA official Frederick Ordway passed away on 1 July (14) at his home in Huntsville, Alabama the age of 87. He worked as the filmmaker's technical consultant and scientific adviser on the 1968 epic, based on author Arthur C. Clarke's short story The Sentinel.
30th October 2013
Fact: Actor Bret McKenzie is developing an animated comedy for U.S. network Fox. The Oscar-winning Flight Of The Concords star is writing and will executive produce the show which will centre upon a group of NASA employees working at a space station in Boulder, Colorado.
17th October 2013
Quote: "We worked on a NASA base, and I call the (security) gate and go, 'There is some suspicious stuff going on in a black van'... they literally strip-searched him, and then he got me back and I got strip-searched. (He) is constantly goofy." Sylvester Stallone landed Arnold Schwarzenegger in hot water with Nasa officials during filming for their new movie Escape Plan - but got his comeuppance when the Terminator star returned the favour.
7th June 2012
Quote: "If I could do that all the time, I'd work for NASA... It is definitely an exaggeration. Just before that interview we did have one incredible, connected, magical evening, so it was on my mind at the time." Singer Robin Thicke regrets boasting about giving his actress wife Paula Patton "double digit orgasms" in a recent magazine interview.
2nd September 2009
Fact: Gloria Estefan was rocketed into space on her 52nd birthday (01Sep09). Her hit MI TIERRA was transmitted to the Discovery space shuttle by NASA as a special tribute to the Cuban star.
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