Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    More than 20 million meteoroids enter Earth's atmosphere every day.
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    Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
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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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    The heart of an astronaut actually gets smaller when in outer space.
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