An Alabama woman got a bruised hip while lying on her couch one day in 1954 after an 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the roof and hit her.

In 2001, Pizza Hut delivered to the International Space Station—at a cost of over $1 million.

Before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 astronaut Eugene Cernan scratched his daughter's initials on the lunar surface. As TV's Alex Dunphy said: "Wow... Every time she looks in the sky, she knows there's a message
just for her."

George Lucas didn't plan for Darth Vader to have a mask. A production designer realized he would need a helmet to breathe on the way to the rebel ship and Lucas liked the design so much he kept it.

During NASA's Gemini 12 mission in November 1966, Buzz Aldrin made history by snapping the first selfie ever taken in space.

As Ann Hodges was napping on her couch in Sylacauga, Alabama one day in 1954, a softball-sized rock broke through her ceiling, bounced off a radio, and hit her thigh, making her the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite.

Pluto got its name after Venetia Burney, a 12-year-old British schoolgirl, suggested it to her grandfather on a whim at breakfast one morning.

When The Martian's trailer came out, perfectionist author Andy Weir "did a bunch of freeze-frames, measuring against Kate Mara's height so I could calculate the radius and the rotation. And I figured out they would only have about .2 Gs."

In 1982, Jamie Lee Curtis gave an unusual gift to her father, Tony: a real star, named in his honor, via the International Star Registry. Next time you wish upon a star, you can wish on Shirley MacLaine, Prince Charles, or Dolly Parton...

At a book fair party one night, sci-fi author Isaac Asimov surprised fellow revelers with an enthusiastic discourse on the subject of sex. In space. "On a spaceship," he exclaimed, "there is zero gravity so there's no sensation of up or down. Each person can imagine he's on the top or bottom!"