December 10, 2025
During early missions to space, astronaut urine was vented into space where it would instantly freeze into millions of tiny crystals. Apollo 9 astronaut Russell Schweickart described a urine dump at sunset to be ”the most beautiful sight in orbit.”
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In July 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin made history as the first human beings to land on the Moon’s surface. Five more crewed missions made it to the Moon in the years that followed before the Apollo program ended in 1972. To date, 24 astronauts (all Americans) have visited the Moon, 12 of
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