Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Astronauts cannot burp in space.
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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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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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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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    A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface!
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but because of a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece on his telescope, he was in fact looking at the blood vessels in his own eye.
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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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