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  • Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Order LA Airspace 'Closed To Firefighting Aircraft For Over A Day' -- Temporary Flight Restrictions Are Normal With Air Force One

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    Did the Biden administration order Los Angeles airspace to be closed "to firefighting aircraft for over a day during his visit" in January 2025? No, that's not true: There was a temporary flight restriction during Biden's visit to the city on January 8, 2025, which is typical for any visiting president to any location. The Federal Aviation Administration told Lead…

    • Jan 9, 2025
    • by: Madison Dapcevich
    Fact Check: Biden Administration Did NOT Order LA Airspace 'Closed To Firefighting Aircraft For Over A Day' -- Temporary Flight Restrictions Are Normal With Air Force One Not Grounded
  • Fact Check: Space Shuttle Footage With Man's Profile Does NOT Prove It Was Fake -- Astronaut Was Filming From Inside Flight Deck

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    Does footage showing what appears to be a shadowy profile of a man moving behind what looks to be a small model space shuttle prove that this footage and the entire 1983 Challenger mission was faked? No, that's not true: The astronaut was filming from inside Challenger's flight deck looking out over the payload bay through a window. His reflection…

    • Jul 2, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Space Shuttle Footage With Man's Profile Does NOT Prove It Was Fake -- Astronaut Was Filming From Inside Flight Deck Reflection
  • Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Drop Space Capsule From Plane To Fake Return From Outer Space -- Test Done Before Manned Flight

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    Did NASA secretly drop a manned space capsule out of a plane in order to stage a hoax return of astronauts from outer space? No, that's not true: The footage that shows a space capsule sliding out of the back of a C-130 cargo plane was not part of a staged hoax. This was one of several drop tests conducted…

    • Jun 28, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: NASA Did NOT Drop Space Capsule From Plane To Fake Return From Outer Space -- Test Done Before Manned Flight Drop Test
  • Fact Check: Earth As Globe Was NOT Concept Introduced By Hollywood -- Was Documented By Ancient Greeks

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    Did Universal Studios first introduce the concept of the world as a globe in 1927 before NASA had photographed it from space in the 1960s? No, that's not true on several counts: It did not take NASA's space program to discover that the Earth was round. Greek philosophers had already described the Earth as a sphere as early as the…

    • Jun 14, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Earth As Globe Was NOT Concept Introduced By Hollywood -- Was Documented By Ancient Greeks Globe Grasped
  • Fact Check: Patent Application Image Is NOT For 'Sun Simulator' But Autonomously Assembled Space Telescope

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    Does a diagram from a patent application for a purported "sun simulator" prove that NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is also a sun simulator because of their similarities? No, that's not true: The diagram included in a 2003 patent application is for an "autonomously assembled space telescope" and does not depict a "sun simulator." The James Webb Space Telescope, which…

    • May 23, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Patent Application Image Is NOT For 'Sun Simulator' But Autonomously Assembled Space Telescope Space 'Scope
  • Fact Check: A Solar Eclipse IS The Moon Blocking Out The Sun

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    Does a solar eclipse not involve the moon blocking out the sun? No, that's not true: Experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) -- an agency that has landed spacecraft on the moon -- describe a solar eclipse as that rare moment when the moon passes between the sun and Earth, blocking the face of the sun. The…

    • Apr 8, 2024
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: A Solar Eclipse IS The Moon Blocking Out The Sun Emits No Light
  • Fact Check: The Moon Is NOT A 'Machine Filled With Computers'

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    Is the moon a machine that is filled with computers? No, that's not true: The moon is a rock with a metallic core, according to NASA, the agency that has studied the moon and outer space for decades. The United States has landed men on the moon, and there have been multiple countries around the world that have sent spacecraft…

    • Mar 5, 2024
    • by: Alexis Tereszcuk
    Fact Check: The Moon Is NOT A 'Machine Filled With Computers' It's A Rock
  • Fact Check: The April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse Will NOT Pass Over 8 North American Towns Named Nineveh

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    Will the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse entirely obscure the sun for eight North American towns named Nineveh, as claimed in a video on TikTok? No, that's not true: Only two of the eight places named Nineveh mentioned in the video -- Nineveh, Indiana, and Nineveh, Ohio -- will experience a total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. The other…

    • Mar 1, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: The April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse Will NOT Pass Over 8 North American Towns Named Nineveh Only Two
  • Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Gemini 9 Spacewalk Was Faked

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    Was the Gemini 9 spacewalk in 1966 faked, as a 2024 post on social media implies with a video clip? No, that's not true: Video footage included in the post is from a 1966 televised re-enactment of what was happening in space on June 5 of that year. CBS News Correspondent Walter Cronkite said multiple times during the live broadcast…

    • Feb 8, 2024
    • by: Marlo Lee
    Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove Gemini 9 Spacewalk Was Faked Re-Enactment
  • Fact Check: Sun Image Does NOT Show 'Black Holes' -- They Are Coronal Holes, With Minor Impact To Radio Signals Predicted

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    Does an image of the sun posted on X show two black holes pointed directly at Earth? No, that's not true: The dark areas in the image are coronal holes made visible with a Solar Ultraviolet Imager on the GOES-16 satellite, and they are not "black holes." Coronal holes do have the potential to produce geomagnetic storms, rated from one…

    • Jan 25, 2024
    • by: Sarah Thompson
    Fact Check: Sun Image Does NOT Show 'Black Holes' -- They Are Coronal Holes, With Minor Impact To Radio Signals Predicted Coronal Hole
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