Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    A 100-pound person on Earth would weigh 38 pounds on Mars.
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    Sound doesn't travel in space.
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    It takes eight and a half minutes for light to get from the sun to earth.
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    Sun Color
    Sun Color
    The Sun is actually white. Viewed from space or a high altitude, it appears as its true color; white. Whereas viewed from a low altitude, atmospheric rendering makes it appear as yellow.
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    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
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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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    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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