15 interesting facts about astronauts
- Astronauts grow taller (height) in space.
- The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.
- You have to be at least 58.5 inches tall to be an astronaut
- Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped on the moon with his left foot
- The Apollo astronauts were not given life insurance before their flights
- 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
- Neil Armstrong almost died during a training exercise while controlling the landing module
- The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
- In December 1972, U.S. astronaut Eugene Cernan became the last person to set foot on the moon.
- 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’s mother’s maiden name was “Moon”
- Buzz Aldrin took holy communion on the moon
- While in quarantine after the Apollo mission, Buzz Aldrin filled out a government expense account report and was reimbursed $33.31.
- Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn’s rings.
- 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
