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Marco Rubio stated on July 07, 2011 in an interview with CBS:
"From now on, we have to pay the Russians $50 million an astronaut to send Americans to the space station"
By Amy Sherman• July 13, 2011
Facebook posts stated on May 14, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says NASA spent more than $165 million over 10 years to develop a pen that "writes in zero gravity, upside down" and in extreme temperatures while the "Russians used a pencil instead."
By Samantha Putterman• May 21, 2019
Kay Bailey Hutchison stated on April 03, 2010 in a press release.:
"If the space-shuttle program is terminated, Russia and China will be the only nations ...with the capability to launch humans into space."
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 22, 2010
Chain email stated on October 25, 2011 in a chain e-mail:
Barack Obama is the "First President to terminate America’s ability to put a man in space."
By Louis Jacobson• October 28, 2011
Rush Limbaugh stated on March 06, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show':
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
By Katie Sanders• March 12, 2014
John McCain stated on January 27, 2016 in a committee hearing:
"Today Russia holds many of our most precious national security satellites at risk before they ever get off the ground."
By Anthony Cave• January 30, 2016
Instagram posts stated on December 01, 2023 in a photo:
The International Space Station is in a pool, not in space.
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• December 5, 2023
Instagram posts stated on June 14, 2023 in an Instagram post:
NASA space rockets can’t reach space.
By Tom Kertscher• June 26, 2023
Facebook posts stated on February 05, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“There are no humans” on the International Space Station.
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 9, 2023
Bill Nelson stated on October 17, 2012 in a debate:
Says Connie Mack was "the only member of the Florida delegation that voted against a bill to help NASA."
By Brittany Alana Davis• November 1, 2012
Instagram posts stated on October 25, 2022 in Instagram post:
“If outer space was a vacuum, astronauts would train in vacuum chambers. Not in swimming pools. Outer Space is a hoax.”
By Michael Majchrowicz• November 1, 2022
Donald Trump stated on March 08, 2018 in 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."
By Jon Greenberg• March 12, 2018
Facebook posts stated on January 04, 2025 in a Facebook post:
Says Elon Musk said, “The Boeing Starliner’s stranded astronauts are not with us anymore,” and “they won’t come back.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• January 8, 2025
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2013 in a Facebook post:
The very first meal on the surface of the moon was the Holy Communion.
By Janel Davis• September 16, 2013
Viral image stated on May 08, 2023 in a Facebook post:
NASA is “just a film studio, and all they do are movies.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• May 11, 2023
Bill Posey stated on February 14, 2011 in a press release responding to Obama's budget proposal.:
"The president promised to close the space gap, but he now seems intent on repeating the events that created the space gap in the first place -- putting in place a new rocket design and then trying to underfund the effort..."
By Laura Figueroa• February 23, 2011
Instagram posts stated on June 17, 2023 in an Instagram post:
NASA faked footage of astronauts on the International Space Station.
By Tom Kertscher, Ciara O'Rourke• June 23, 2023
Instagram posts stated on May 08, 2023 in an Instagram post:
Dropped globe in video shows NASA astronauts filming in TV studio.
By Jeff Cercone• May 8, 2023
Michael Sullivan stated on July 19, 2010 in a Twitter post:
Says the director of NASA says its main mission is Muslim outreach.
By W. Gardner Selby• August 1, 2010
Facebook posts stated on February 06, 2023 in a Facebook post:
“The moon is a habitable place.”
By Madison Czopek• March 6, 2023

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