Space Facts

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    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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