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 volume of the Earth's moon is the same as the volume of the Pacific Ocean.
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    The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
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    If you were to cry in space, the tears would form a bubble in your eye until it's so big it moves to another spot on your face.
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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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    Neil Armstrong, the first man to step foot on the moon, carried with him a piece of cloth and wood from the original 1903 Wright Flyer.
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    Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.
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    It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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