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Buzz Aldrin peed his pants on the moon and 18 other wild facts you never learned about @NASA's #Apollo11 mission

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#Apollo11 was the ninth endeavor in the 14-mission Apollo moonshot program, and it was arguably @NASA's most dangerous and ambitious mission ever.

The first moon meal was bacon and coffee. But mostly, the Apollo astronauts ate a lot of dehydrated beef and vegetables. The Apollo astronauts had no bathroom. Instead, they used bags and roll-on cuffs.

Buzz Aldrin has boasted about being the first person to “piss his pants on the moon.”

The Saturn V rocket that launched the #Apollo11 astronauts into space is still the tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever flown.

In previous spacewalks, the more junior crew member would venture out first, leaving the commander at the controls in case of an emergency. Aldrin and Armstrong stayed on the lunar surface for 21 hours and 36 minutes, though they spent most of that time inside the lunar module.

This scary situation almost came to pass: Before lift-off, Aldrin discovered that a crucial circuit breaker had broken.

President Nixon had a speech ready in case the astronauts died. Less than an hour before the Apollo 11 crew landed in the Pacific Ocean, they were faced with another threat.

After the Apollo 11 astronauts were safely back on Earth, @NASA quarantined them for 21 days in case they'd brought back moon germs.

The crew had to sign customs forms declaring "moon rock and moon dust samples" upon their return to the US.

Buzz Aldrin submitted $33.31 in travel expenses for reimbursement. Today, the flags planted on the moon have almost certainly lost their color and are probably disintegrating.