Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    The earth is .02 degrees hotter during a full moon.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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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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    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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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