Wildly Unnecessary Facts: Space Edition: True, Vast, and Slightly Alarming Stories from Beyond Earth

Did you know it actually rains diamonds on Neptune and Uranus? Or that an astronaut is measurably younger than he should be because of relativity? Or that NASA did not, in fact, invent Tang? Wildly Unnecessary Facts: Space Edition is a collection of true, thoroughly fact-checked stories about the universe - the vast, the strange, and the completely unnecessary. No science homework, no dry lecture. Just the good stuff. Inside, you'll find: - 9 chapters of true space weirdness, from planetary oddities to astronaut life's unglamorous parts - Space exploration's wildest near-misses - all survived - Real NASA spinoff technology, sorted from the myths (sorry, Tang) - A bonus round of party trivia questions to test what stuck Written in a warm, funny, conversational voice - this is space as it should be told: over drinks, not in a classroom. The fourth volume in the Wildly Unnecessary Facts series - no need to read the others first.