Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    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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    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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    Saturn's rings are about 500,000 miles in circumference but only about a foot thick.
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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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