Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    41% of the moon is not visible from earth at any time.
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    There are approximately 3,500 astronomers in the U.S. - but over 15,000 astrologers.
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    One pinhead of the sun's energy is enough to kill a person at a distance of 160 kilometers.
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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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    All of the Earth's continents are wider at the north than in the south - and nobody knows why.
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    The sun puts out more power in 1 second than mankind has ever used within human existence.
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    On Titan, Saturn's largest moon, the atmosphere is so thick and the gravity so low that humans could fly through it by flapping "wings" attached to their arms.
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