Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    Gene Cernan
    Gene Cernan
    Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon, wrote his daughter's initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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