Dr. Eugene Shoemaker,European Space Agency's Olympus..

1. The final resting-place for Dr. Eugene Shoemaker - the Moon. The famed U.S. Geological Survey astronomer, trained the Apollo astronauts about craters, but never made it into space. Mr. Shoemaker had wanted to be an astronaut but was rejected because of a medical problem. His ashes were placed on board the Lunar Prospector spacecraft before it was launched on January 6, 1998. NASA crashed the probe into a crater on the moon in an attempt to learn if there is water on the moon.
2. If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
3. The radioactive substance, Americanium - 241 is used in many smoke detectors.
4. Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.
5. Only one satellite has been ever been destroyed by a meteor: the European Space Agency's Olympus in 1993.
6. At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length.
7. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.
8. Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.