Random Space Facts

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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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    If two pieces of metal touch in space, they become permanently stuck together.
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    In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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    There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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    MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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    NASA invented baby food as we know it today.
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    Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest single structure inside the Solar System. If you could see it with your eyes, it would appear larger than our full Moon.
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