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Jul 18, 2020

TIL that Félicette, the only cat to survive a spaceflight, was honored in 2019 with a memorial at France's International Space University.

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May 11, 2020

TIL Astronauts Don't Snore In Space; the lack of gravity makes it so astronauts snore less while they’re sleeping...less gravity equals less airway obstruction.

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Nov 21, 2019

TIL that on December 16, 1965, NASA received a prank transmission from two astronauts: "We have an object, probably in polar orbit... I see a command Module and and eight smaller modules in front. The pilot of the command module is wearing a red suit." They then started playing, "Jingle Bells".

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Jun 26, 2019

TIL much of the work on the Apollo 11 spacecraft was done entirely by hand. For instance, parachutes were manually stitched and folded by only three indispensable, trained professionals who were forbidden from riding in the same car to prevent all three from being injured in the same accident.

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