Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Scientists have confirmed that Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, has a watery ocean.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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