Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The ashes of the man who discovered Pluto are currently en route to dwarf planet, scheduled to arrive on the 14th of July, 2015.
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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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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
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    The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.
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    The center of the galaxy tastes like raspberries and smells like rum, according to astronomers.
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