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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jimbojangelse" data-source="post: 3008759" data-attributes="member: 122018">-The slogan for the Apollo 17 mission was "Apollo 17, one big leap for unemployment"-The crew of the Apollo 13 mission were originally slated to fly Apollo 14, but got bumped up due to crew changes.-The mission coofftopicnder of the Apollo 13 crew, Jim Lovell, has been to the moon twice, but has never set foot on it.-Laika, the first dog in space, was deliberatley put to sleep through a remote mechanism as her spacecraft circled the earth, because the Russians couldn't figure out how to get her down.-Yuri Gagarin's spacecraft did not actually land after orbiting the earth.  Gagarin parachuted out as the spacecraft was coming down, but the Russians kept this secret for years, fearing that if the truth came out, his flight would no longer qualify Gagarin as the first man to orbit the earth.-Sally Ride was not the first woman in space.  Valentina Tereshkova was, in 1963.  She later married a fellow cosmonaut and had a child.  People joked that Tereshkova was only put into space to see if spaceflight affected the reproductive process.-Despite the fact that Russia flew a woman in space almost 20 years before NASA did, they have only had 2 women in their astronaut corps, and neither flew more than one mission.-For ever dollar put into the Apollo program, it has been estimated that we have gotten seven dollars out.-MRI's and CAT scans were derived from Apollo technology.  Smoke detectors came from skylab-Water will boil in a vacuum, no matter what temperature it is at-Birds die of dehydration in zero-g because they cannot swallow without gravity-Alexi Leonov was the first man to perform an EVA-the dried ice cream cubes touted as space food are never actually taken into space.  They are too dry and crumbly-John Glenn ate apple pie on his 3-orbit mission in space-Alan Shepard's flight was originally sheduled to launch in March, but was delayed until May due to technical difficulties.  Yuri Gagarin's flight was in April-Russia has never succeeded in landing a spacecraft on mars.-The Apollo 12 Saturn V was struck by lightning during lift-off-Apollo 17 was the first night launch of a spacecraft-Prior to the Apollo 1 fire, the atmosphere in spacecrat was comprised of pure oxygen.  After tie fire however, they decided that despite the extra weight, adding some nitrogen to the atmosphere might be a good idea.Deke Slayton was the only one of the original seven not to fly a mercury mission.  Gordan Cooper was the only one not to fly after the conclusion of the mercury missions.-Alan Shepard was the only one of the original seven to set foot on the moon.-Robert Goddard was the first man to use a liquid propulsion rocket-if there were an ocean big enough to contain the planet saturn, it would float-</blockquote>

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