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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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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