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10 Facts about the Apollo 11's Historic Moon Landing: 1. Armstrong was the first human to step foot on the moon, but Aldrin holds the title as the first man to urinate on it.  2. Aldrin and Armstrong reported that the moon smelled a bit like wet ashes and gunpowder. 3. Neil Armstrong’s mom single worry was that the lunar crust was too delicate and wouldn’t support her son’s weight when he walked on it. 4. The Apollo computers had less processing power than a cellphone. 5. Drinking water was a fuel-cell by-product, but Apollo 11's hydrogen-gas filters didn't work, making every drink bubbly. 6. Urinating and defecating in zero gravity had not been figured out; the latter was so troublesome that at least one astronaut spent his entire mission on an anti-diarrhea drug to avoid it. 7. The inner bladder of the space suits—the airtight liner that keeps the astronaut's body under Earth-like pressure—and the ship's computer's ROM chips we...

10 Facts about Voyager 1: 1. Voyager 1 Has Been Traveling for 35 Years Launched in 1977, September 5 will mark the 36th anniversary of Voyager 1's launch. That makes it one of the oldest pieces of space technology that is still in contact with Earth. 2. V1 Has Traversed Over 11 BILLION Miles To put this number in perspective, 11 billion miles is the equivalent of circling the Earth 440,000 times. And yet, in terms of light-years, the unit to measure space that is marked by how far light can travel in a year, V1 hasn't even left the neighbourhood. It will take 40,000 years for V1 to reach only two light-years distance from the sun. As large as 11 billion is, space is infinitely bigger. 3. V1 is Traveling At 39,000 mph This speed makes it the fastest space technology we have right now. Even spacecraft that have been launched years later with better technology is slower than V1. 4. It Was Originally Only Supposed to Survey Jupiter The original intention of V1 a...