Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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 center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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 Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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