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The helmet’s gold-
coated outer visor FAST FACTS
prevents eye damage
from the sun’s rays.
THE FIRST
CHIMP
TO GO INTO
SPACE WAS
NAMED
HAM

This unusual space traveler went aboard
a US Mercury spacecraft in 1961. Other
creatures that have reached space include mice,
monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, insects, cats,
dogs, turtles, spiders, and even jellyfish.
A MODERN CAR
IS MORE COMPLEX THAN
APOLLO 11

A contaminant
Drink bag control system
keeps ensures that
astronaut the astronaut’s
hydrated. exhaled breath In the early days, NASA sent
is kept clean. astronauts to the Moon using less
computing power than is found in
a modern car. Still, the spacecraft
was equipped with real-time flight
information and an automatic
navigation system, and it worked!

Space suits are life-savers.
Weighing 275 lb (125 kg) on
Earth, they feel like 46 lb
(21 kg) on the Moon, where
Two oxygen tanks there is less gravity. Each suit
are stored inside the costs $12 million and consists of
life support system, multiple layers. The outer layer
with the computer, protects against flying space
radio, and water tank. rocks, while the inner layers PIZZA HUT
keep out the scorching DELIVERS
Why do sunlight and the icy cold. SPACE PIZZA
astronauts on
board the ISS In 2001 Pizza Hut “delivered” a vacuum-sealed
pizza to hungry astronauts on board the
sneeze about International Space Station. Admittedly, the
100 times Russian rocket carrying the pizza took longer
a day? than the usual 30 minutes to arrive.

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