Space Facts

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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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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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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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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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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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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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