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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    The volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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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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    A neutron star (what remains after a Super Nova) is so dense that a portion of it the size of a sugar cube would weigh as much as all of humanity, or more than all the cars in the United States.
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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