Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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