Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Earth is the only planet in our solar system that's not named after a god or goddess.
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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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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 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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    Astronauts get taller when they are in space.
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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
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