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You can't cry on space because your tears won't ever fall.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at US$150 billion.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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A sample of Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree was sent into space to 'defy gravity.'♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don't know how or where it came from.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Most astronauts become two inches taller in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world's ocean.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On the International Space Station, urine passes through a special water treatment plant that turns it into drinking water.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Inside an astronaut's helmet, there is a velcro patch that serves as a scratcher.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Astronauts" come from America. Space explorers from Russia are called "cosmonauts."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA is developing 3D printed pizzas for astronauts.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA scientists have discovered stars that are
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The International Space Station is about the size of a football field.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Saturn's rings are not solid. They are made up of bits of ice, dust and rock.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Floating cities above the clouds of Venus may be our best bet for becoming a two-planet species. Conditions there are so similar to Earth a human wouldn't need a pressurized suit, the gravity is similar and transit times are shorter than to Mars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Humans can live unprotected in space for about 30 seconds if they don't hold their breath.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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To our eyes, in space, the sun would appear white, not yellow.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Tortoises Orbited the Moon Before Astronauts Did: They Were Sent to Test a Russian Space Probe.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Great Wall of China is not visible from space, but China's air pollution is.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first man-made object in space was the German V2 rocket.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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North Korea's space agency is called "NADA", which in Spanish means "nothing."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It is impossible to whistle in a Spacesuit.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If the Sun were the size of a beach ball in Space, then Jupiter would be the size of a golf ball and the Earth would be as small as a pea.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Cockroaches raised in space become quicker, stronger, faster, and tougher than cockroaches on Earth.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The farthest distance from Earth an astronaut has ever traveled was during the Apollo 13 emergency.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts on the International Space Station exercise about 2 hours per day.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sex is banned aboard the ISS (International Space Station).♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The third country in space, after The U.S. and the USSR, was Canada, which was considered to have the most advanced space program in 1962.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1963, a cat called "Felicette" became the first feline in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"Apollo 13", "Armageddon", and "Around the World in 80 Days" are among the movies NASA keeps aboard the International Space Station.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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An astronaut threw a boomerang while visiting the International Space Station and it returned to him, even in the absence of gravity.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Laika, the first dog in space, did not die peacefully as initially reported by the Soviets. She died because the cabin overheated.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts in space can't tell if their bladders are full. They are trained to relieve themselves every two hours.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA has a list of accurate space technology terms that writers can use in Science Fiction stories.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA engineers asked Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, if 100 tampons was the right number for her 7-day trip to space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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John F Kennedy had such concerns about the space program's high cost, that he proposed partnering with the Soviet Union on a joint expedition to the moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On Earth, the International Space Station weighs 925,000 pounds, more than 11 full semi trucks. In space, it weighs almost nothing.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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American astronauts have been able to vote in elections from space since 1997.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On August 10, 2015, NASA astronauts ate food that had been grown in space for the first time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts aboard the ISS change clothes near a filter that sucks up the skin particles that would otherwise float around.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Outer space begins at 100 kilometers (62 mi) above sea level.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2015, Astronaut Chris Hadfield released the first album of songs recorded entirely in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It costs 41 cents per year per American citizen for NASA's entire Curiosity program.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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6 months before the Challenger disaster a lone engineer told his superiors about the O-Ring problem and warned the result "would be a catastrophe of the highest order: loss of human life."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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While floating in lunar orbit, astronaut Al Worden was 2,235 miles (3,600 km) away from his companions, making him the most isolated human being ever.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Russians take guns into space to protect themselves against bears if they land off-course.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Neil Armstrong claims he said "one small step for *A* man" when he set foot on the moon and that audio analysis of the recording backs that up and it's been misquoted this entire time.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts aboard Apollo 10 heard unexplained "outer spacey" music while orbiting the dark side of the moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1973, the crew of Skylab 4 staged the first strike in space. They requested time off to "look out the window and think."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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There's no "zero gravity" in space. Astronauts are in a constant state of free fall, which is why they appear to float.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, orbited Earth 48 times aboard Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts often lose their fingernails after conducting spacewalks.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Elementary school students in Virginia built a satellite that was later deployed into space by NASA in 2016.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Comet Lovejoy released as much alcohol as the amount found in 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Night and day on Earth only appear to last 45 minutes from the International Space Station.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first words of the third man on the moon were, "Whoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The longest spacewalk ever lasted almost 9 hours.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The only survivors of the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster were some parasitic worms called nematodes.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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It's not strictly true that no sound vibrations can travel through space at all, but humans would not be able to hear any sounds in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The first animals in space were fruit flies, launched in a rocket by the US in 1947. They were still living when recovered.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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When astronauts spend long periods of time at zero gravity in space, their hearts become more spherical and lose muscle mass.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronomers estimate that the observable universe has more than 100 billion galaxies.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you could see as well as the Camera on the Hubble Space Telescope, you would be able to read the fine print on a newspaper 1 mile away.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Dung beetles use the Milky Way to navigate.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA has discovered over 3,200 planets, all confirmed with 99% certainty.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronaut John Glenn became the oldest person in space at 77 after lobbying NASA for 2 years to fly "as a human guinea pig for geriatrics."♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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NASA astronauts can vote from space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Neil Armstrong's boots are still floating around in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Klingon was the chosen language for the Welsh government in its response to queries about UFO sightings at Cardiff Airport.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The United Nations is planning to launch its first space mission in 2021.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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On April Fool's day in 1976, BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The astronauts in the Challenger Explosion survived the initial explosion and were alive for nearly three minutes, until the cabin crashed into the ocean at a speed of 200 mph.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Nixon's administration had a statement prepared in case the Apollo 11 astronauts were stranded on the moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 1993, a company attempted to launch a giant billboard into low earth orbit. From earth, the billboard would look almost as big as a full moon. After the project was canceled, a bill was introduced that banned any further space advertising.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person to walk on the moon, claimed that "Aliens have contacted humans several times”.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The Kepler 11145123 star, discovered in 2016, is so perfectly spherical that it's the roundest natural object ever measured.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Long-term stays in space reveal issues with bone and muscle loss in low gravity, immune system suppression, and radiation exposure.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you weighed 150 lb (68 kg) on Earth, you would weigh 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) on the Sun.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent nearly 438 consecutive days aboard the Mir space station, and still holds the record for longest single human spaceflight.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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If you weigh 150 lb (68 kg) on the Earth, you would weigh only 25 lb (11 kg) on the Moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Roses taken to space have more "floral rose aroma" than the same roses on Earth, according to a 1998 experiment by NASA.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronaut Scott Kelly grew 2 inches after being in space for a year.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Apollo 7 astronauts, Shirra, Eisele and Cunningham, made the first televised broadcast from space in October, 1968.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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About 30% of solar radiation is reflected back to space and the rest is absorbed by oceans, clouds and land masses.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The iron in our blood and the calcium in our bones come from ancient explosions of giant stars.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Outer space is only an hour's drive away, if you somehow drove your car straight upwards.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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All astronauts must learn how to speak Russian, and all cosmonauts must learn how to speak English.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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"El Gordo" is the biggest galaxy cluster ever seen in the early universe.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The universe is expanding at 74.3 km per second per megaparsec.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Astronauts don't snore in space.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Ethiopia has a space programme.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was also the first known LGBT astronaut.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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The brightest things in the universe are quasars, which can be 429 trillion times brighter than our sun.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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In 2017, a group of scientists sent messages to any advanced alien civilization living in a star system 12.4 light years away, hoping to receive a response in 25 years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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During its lifetime, the International Space Station will be hit by 100,000 meteoroids.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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According to a 1967 U.N. treaty, nobody can own celestial bodies such as Mars or the Moon.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
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All galaxies, regardless of size,rotate once every billion years.♦ SOURCE♺ SHARE
