Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The Space Shuttle main engine weighs 1/7th as much as a train engine but delivers as much horsepower as 39 locomotives.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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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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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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    An international team of astronomers has spotted the farthest known gravitational lens and, as Albert Einstein predicted, it is a galaxy that deflects and intensifies the light of a much further object.
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