Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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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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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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