Tag : Moon

Did You Know? The peach was the first fruit to be eaten on the moon.

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Did You Know? Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the building of the Great Pyramid.

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Did You Know? Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.

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Did You Know? More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean.

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Did You Know? The flag erected on the Moon during the historic Apollo 11 landing was purchased at a local Sears store for $5.50.

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Did You Know? Neil Armstrong stepped on the Moon with his left foot first.

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Did You Know? Not all moons are dry and dusty like ours. Jupiter's Europa has a liquid ocean under an icy crust.

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Did You Know? We know more about the surfaces of Mars and Venus than we do about the ocean floor.

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Did You Know? The Moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.

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Did You Know? Eugene Shoemaker is the only person whose ashes have been buried on any celestial body outside Earth.

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Did You Know? Easter has a different date every year because it’s based on the moon phases.

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Did You Know? A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned (robotic) missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959.

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Did You Know? Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21 at 02:56 UTC.

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