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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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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