Did you know that Snoopy is a NASA astronaut?As part of the Artemis mission, Snoopy flew to the Moon. His mission is to serve as an indicator of weightlessness.Snoopy took place on board the SLS ( Space Launch System) rocket and the Orion capsule.For the occasion, Snoopy wore an orange jumpsuit, gloves, boots and a […]

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Did you know that the crew of Apollo 7 had a funny nickname ? After a series of uninhabited test flights, Apollo 7 took off on October 1968 but the captain Walter Schirra suffering from a cold contaminated his teammates.The mood of the astronauts was disturbed to the point that the media ended up nicknaming […]

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Did you know that Alan Shepard played golf on the moon?As captain of the Apollo 14 mission, Alan Shepard asked for permission to play golf on the moon and guess what? NASA gave it to him!The ball was never found.

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Did you know that we grown in space?Astronauts grow 3 percent taller in space.That’s because their spine is not subject to the Earth’s gravity and the vertebrae relax and expand however once they are back on Earth, astronauts regain their normal height in a few months.

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Did you know that there is a car in space ?In february 2018 Spacex launched Falcon Heavy a brand new rocket into space. Because of the high risk of failure such a flight brought, no human was on board. However, the rocket did not carry a satellite either.Instead Elon Musk the founder of Spacex, decided […]

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Did you know that Apollo 11 had 25 seconds of fuel left before landing on the moon ? They almost ran out of fuel !Neil Armstrong piloted the small module that would land on the moon but, due to an autopilot issue, the module was sent towards rocks.Armstrong had to change course and managed to […]

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Did you know that the first living being in space was a dog ?In 1957, soviet engineer Serguei Korolev (1907-1966), the man in charge of the soviet space program, launched humanity ´s first satellite Spoutnik and send a dog named Laika in space. It was the first living being to ever leave the Earth’s atmosphere.

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