Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Some asteroids have other asteroids orbiting them.
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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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    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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    It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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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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