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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 Moon: 1. The Moon is drifting away from the Earth: The Moon is moving approximately 3.8 cm away from our planet every year. It is estimated that it will continue to do so for around 50 billion years. By the time that happens, the Moon will be taking around 47 days to orbit the Earth instead of the current 27.3 days. 2. The Moon has only been walked on by 12 people; all American males: The first man to set foot on the Moon in 1969 was Neil Armstrong on the Apoll o 11 mission, while the last man to walk on the Moon in 1972 was Gene Cernan on the  Apollo 17 mission. Since then the Moon has only be visited by unmanned vehicles. 3. The Moon has quakes: These are caused by the gravitational pull of the Earth. Lunar astronauts used seismographs on their visits to the Moon and found that small moonquakes occurred several kilometres beneath the surface, causing ruptures and cracks. Scientists think the Moon has a molten core, just like Earth. 4. The first s...