From a dummy-driven Tesla, to a giant disco ball, to U.S. presidents' hair, here are some of the weirdest things humans have put into space.
Space is becoming increasingly filled with human-made things. Most of these objects you would expect to find in space, such as functioning spacecraft, astronaut gear or free-floating space junk. But there are also a few peculiar items that humans have put into space — and not always on purpose.
You can track the car and its passenger in real time on the website whereisroadster.com. As of May 2023, the Tesla had completed around 3.4 orbits around the sun and traveled more than 2.5 billion miles . This means the car has exceeded its warranty by more than 73,000 times. To further test what happened to the maintenance hole, Brownlee repeated the experiment on Aug. 27, 1957. This time, for Pascal-B, Brownlee recorded the experiment with a camera that shot one frame per millisecond, which revealed the cover could have reached a top speed of 125,000 mph . That speed is around five times the escape velocity of Earth, suggesting that both maintenance holes likely made it into space.
However, the giant disco ball's time in space was short-lived. It reentered Earth's atmosphere on March 22, two months after it launched and around seven months earlier than expected, according to The Atlantic. Warhol claimed that the sketch is actually just his initials, but we'll let you decide for yourself.
Additionally, there are three custom Lego figurines currently circling Jupiter on board NASA's Juno probe, which was launched in 2011 to reveal insight into the gas giant and its moons. The figurines depict the Roman gods Juno and Jupiter, as well as Galileo Galilei, who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons.
Dinosaur bones Bezos and company are not the only oddities that Blue Origin has sent into space. On May 20, 2021, the company also launched nearly 200 individual dinosaur bone fragments on another New Shepard rocket. However, the weirdest animals to be sent to space are arguably tardigrades, also known as water bears, which are renowned for being able to survive extreme conditions. In 2007, they also became the first animals to survive direct exposure to space when they were strapped to the outside of the Russian Foton-M3 spacecraft as it orbited Earth for 12 days, according to the European Space Agency.
The lightsaber was launched into space in 2007 with a team of astronauts who delivered and assembled the Harmony module to the ISS. The launch coincided with the 30th anniversary of the first Star Wars film,"A New Hope," but the lightsaber is actually Luke's second laser sword , which featured in the third film,"Return of the Jedi."
Interestingly, NASA astronauts aboard the ISS at the time were forbidden from eating the pizza because of the agency's strict rules on corporate sponsorships. Parts of the Wright brothers' plane Continuing with the aviation trend, parts of Orville and Wilbur Wright's first plane, the Wright Flyer, have also made it into space — on two separate occasions.
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