Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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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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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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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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    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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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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