Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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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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