Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    An organisation called Mars One is planning to establish a permanent colony of humans on Mars by 2023.
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    There are two golf balls sitting on the moon.
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    Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
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    The Mystery of the Black Knight Satellite
    There's a mysterious satellite of unknown origin that's orbiting Earth. Dubbed the Black Knight Satellite, astronomers have been reporting strange radio signals allegedly coming from the satellite since the 1930s - before NASA or the Soviet Union put satellites into space.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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