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You have to be at least 58.5 inches tall to be an astronaut
Astronauts grow taller (height) in space
The Apollo astronauts were not given life insurance before their flights
Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot
Neil Armstrong almost died during a training exercise while controlling the landing module
Armstrong’s quote “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” was said 6 1/2 hours after landing. Armstrong claimed he said “a man” which was inaudible due to static
Buzz Aldrin was the first man to pee on the moon. He used his relief tube live on TV with 1/5 of the world watching
Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the moon
Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon”
While in quarantine after the Apollo mission, Buzz Aldrin filled out a government expense account report and was reimbursed $33.31
In December 1972, U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last person to set foot on the moon.
For Muslim astronauts, without special dispensation, they will have to pray 80 times in 24 hours. However, Malaysian religious bodies have said that they will only need to pray five times a day and that the times should follow the location of the spacecraft’s launch

The technology contained in a single game boy unit in 2000 exceeds all the computing power that was used to put the first man on moon in 1969

The Milky Way is currently devouring a smaller galaxy known as the Sagittarius dwarf elliptical galaxy
In turn, the larger neighbouring Andromeda galaxy will absorb the Milky Way in about 2 billion years

Earth is the densest planet in the solar system and the only one not named after a God
Earth is egg shaped
The Earth’s equater is actually growing fatter. Accelerated melting of Earth’s glaciers is taking the blame for the gain in equatorial girth. Reported in Aug. 2 issue of the journal Science
Earth gets heavier every year. Roughly 1000 tonnes of space dust land of its surface annually

Pluto was discovered by accident. Calculations which later turned out to be wrong, falsely predicted a planet beyond Nepture. Astronomers found Pluto before their mistake was corrected
In 2006, Pluto was no longer considered a planet and was demoted to dwarf planet status
Pluto is the 2nd most contrasty body in the Solar System, after Iapetus

Scientists postulate that there is another planet beyond pluto, known as Planet X
The search for planet X is done via the space telescope called SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility) that is kept below freezing temperatures
Ancient Sumerian texts write about a race of Anunnaki living on Nibiru (Planet X) and that Nibiru is on a 3600 year eliptical orbit, unlike the rest of the planets in our solar system

Saturn’s moon Titan has more oil and gas than that on earth. There, it rains methane and ethane, which forms massive lakes

All of NASA’s first 3 Apollo astronauts were killed in a fire during training because of faulty wiring
There was only 30 seconds of fuel remaining, when Apollo 11’s lunar module landed on the moon
During Armstrong’s liftoff from the moon, their launch control broke. Armstrong had to jam a pen into the controls in order to activate the launch
As a traditional sign of peace, Buzz Aldrin planned to leave on the Moon a small gold olive branch, along with an Apollo 1 patch and two Russian cosmonaut medallions in honor of those killed in the space race. He forgot about this until the very last moment, and in haste simply tossed them unceremoniously onto the surface on his way back up the ladder. The astronauts also chucked out their moonboots, backpacks, a sack of garbage and their urine bags
The astronauts had a lot of trouble planting the American flag in the hard lunar soil. Despite their effots, during the lift-off, Buzz watched as the Stars and Stripes indeed “toppled into the dust”
During liftoff, Apollo 12 lost all its contols after being struck by lightning
In Apollo 14, pilot Edgar Mitchell conducted his own extra-sensory perception experiment. The results? The number of correct guesses were reportedly less than would have been obtained by random chance.