Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

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    Jupiter's moon Ganymede, is larger than the planet Mercury!
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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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    An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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    Lightning strikes about 6,000 times per minute on this planet!
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    The Earth weighs around 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons (5,940 billion billion metric tons)!
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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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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth!
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