Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    The moon is actually moving away from Earth at a rate of 1.5 inches per year.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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 earth rotates more slowly on its axis in March than in September.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a giant glass of water it would float.
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