Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    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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    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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    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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    The temperature of the earth's interior increases by 1 degree every 60 feet down.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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