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.
    147
    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
    118
    Jupiter is bigger than all the other planets combined.
    254
    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.
    32
    Summer on Uranus lasts for 21 years.
    358
    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
    277
    A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
    2
    Buzz Aldrin’s mother’s maiden name was Moon.
    9