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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    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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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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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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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