Soda cans retrofitted for pouring in microgravity, a baby dinosaur bone and human ashes are among the strange things that have traveled into space aboard U.S. space shuttles.

Cans of Coca Cola and Pepsi were on the same July 1985 flight, STS-51F, according to The Richest.com. Coke started the idea, with an interest in the effects of space flight on taste, and then Pepsi jumped onboard, the website stated.

Specially modified cans of both cola brands were on the shuttle, with their own line item in the schedule: Carbonated beverage container evaluation, according to a 45-page press kit.

The baby dinosaur bone, the first to fly in space, was on the same Challenger flight as the soda cans, which launched July 29, 1985. The bone rode along at the suggestion of scientists from Montana State University, a Johnson Space Center representative said Monday.

More recently, on a June 2010 flight of a Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft, U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker wore a watch that belonged to Amelia Earhart, therichest.com reported. Earhart, the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared in July 1937 over the Pacific.

Other odd items that have flown into space include:

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