Space Facts

    Random Space Facts

    There are 77 Space Facts!

    Today's top fuel dragsters take off with more force than the space shuttle.
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    The earth travels through space at 660,000 miles per hour.
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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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    The light hitting the earth right now is 30 thousand years old.
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    In outer space there exists a gigantic cloud of alcohol which can be used to produce 400 trillion trillion pints of beer.
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    There is a mysterious and loud radio signal known as 'the space roar' that has yet to be explained.
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    In space, astronauts cannot cry properly, because there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow down their faces!
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    Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth down and pushing the Moon further away.
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