Latest Fact-Checks In Space

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Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 a cabinet meeting at the White House

The last private rocket launch "cost $80 million. If the government did it, the same thing would have cost probably 40 or 50 times that amount of money. I mean, literally."

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By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2018

Other Space
stated on July 14, 2015 in a Change.org petition

"By declaring that Pluto was no longer a planet, the (International Astronomical Union) put into place a planetary definition that would have even declassified Earth as a planet if it existed as far from the sun as Pluto does."

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By Anna Bruzgulis • July 21, 2015

Michael Turner
stated on April 30, 2010 a letter from the Ohio congressional delegation to NASA

A space shuttle the National Museum of the United States Air Force near Dayton would be "within a day's drive of 60 percent of the U.S. population."

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By Tom Feran • April 14, 2011

Michael Sullivan
stated on July 19, 2010 a Twitter post

Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach.

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By W. Gardner Selby • August 1, 2010