Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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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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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
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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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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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    The Sun and Moon appear to be the same size because the moon is 400 times smaller than the Sun, but 400 times closer to Earth.
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