10 Secrets You Didn’t Know About NASA

10. It Doesn't Have Its Own Weather System

It might seem strange to start this list off with something that isn't true, but this rumour is so persistent that many people believe it to be fact.

The Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) is a huge complex located at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It's 526ft (160m) tall, which makes it the largest single-story building in the world. It's also one of the largest buildings of any kind according to volume, with over 3.5 million square metres of space inside.

All this room is needed for what goes on within its walls. It is here that the components of rockets, space shuttles, and other impressive bits of kit are put together, ready for their journey to the stars.

As a result of the VAB's giant size, whispers began to circulate that it had its own internal weather system with some speculating that clouds could form at the top of the building.

Well, according to an interview from 2019, this is false. Fog has been known to roll into the VAB on particularly humid days, but no internal clouds have ever been reported.

Sorry to be a buzzkill.