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Latest Fact-Checks In Space

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Donald Trump
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."
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2018
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 4, 2016 a town hall in Manchester, N.H.:
China is "practicing how to blow up our satellites."
True
By Louis Jacobson • February 5, 2016
B.o.B.
B.o.B.
stated on January 25, 2016 in a Jan. 25 tweet:
"You've been tremendously deceived" by people who say the Earth is not flat.
Pants on Fire!
By Lauren Carroll • February 1, 2016
John McCain
John McCain
stated on January 27, 2016 a committee hearing:
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."
Mostly True
By Anthony Cave • January 30, 2016
Other Space
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."
Half-True
By Anna Bruzgulis • July 21, 2015
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 6, 2014 a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show':
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
False
By Katie Sanders • March 12, 2014
Texas Liberty PAC
Texas Liberty PAC
stated on February 22, 2014 a sign spotted outside a polling place in Austin:
Says Lamar Smith "sponsored the bill that funded Obamacare."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2014
X posts
X posts
stated on January 7, 2014 posts on Twitter:
It’s warmer on Mars than it is in parts of the United States and Canada during the polar vortex.
Mostly False
By Julie Kliegman • January 7, 2014
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 20, 2013 a Facebook post:
The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.
True
By Janel Davis • September 16, 2013
Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on March 14, 2013 a speech at the CPAC conference:
Says the federal government is supporting a study in Hawaii to "develop a menu for when we colonize Mars."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • March 15, 2013
Bill Nelson
Bill Nelson
stated on October 17, 2012 a debate:
Says Connie Mack was "the only member of the Florida delegation that voted against a bill to help NASA."
Mostly True
By Brittany Alana Davis • November 1, 2012
stated on December 9, 2011 a column in the New York Times:
Newt Gingrich "has suggested" building "a mirror system in space" could improve the Earth’s habitability.
True
By Louis Jacobson • December 12, 2011
Chain email
Chain email
stated on October 25, 2011 a chain e-mail:
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • October 28, 2011
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on July 7, 2011 an interview with CBS:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • July 13, 2011
Michael Turner
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."
Half-True
By Tom Feran • April 14, 2011
Rick Perry
Rick Perry
stated on January 18, 2011 his inauguration address:
Says the first word spoken from the moon was "Houston."
False
By Meghan Ashford-Grooms • January 22, 2011
Michael Sullivan
Michael Sullivan
stated on July 19, 2010 a Twitter post:
Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach.
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • August 1, 2010
Marco Rubio
Marco Rubio
stated on February 8, 2010 a news account of a speech:
The Obama administration "spent more money on the Cash for Clunkers program than the space program."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 12, 2010
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