Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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    Wow! Signal
    Wow! Signal
    In 1977, researchers detected a strong and unusual radio signal from space that lasted 72 seconds. It hasn't been detected since.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    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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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    The typical spec of dust that you see floating in the air is half way in size between the Earth and a subatomic particle.
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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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