Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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