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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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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