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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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    If you went out into space, you would explode before you suffocated because there's no air pressure.
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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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