[Space fact 1] In 1973, Jimmy Carter reported a UFO sighting, calling it the "darndest thing I've ever seen."
[Space fact 2] On July 20, 1969, the Apollo II lunar module (named Eagle) landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon. The last person to stand on the moon’s surface was Eugene Cernan in 1972.
[Space fact 3] Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell as a student discovered pulsars. She credits her discovery to impostor syndrome and a fear of being kicked out of college, saying, “I’m a bit of a fighter, so I decided until they threw me out I would work my very hardest". That discovery earned the 1974 Nobel Prize.
[Space fact 4] The first human in space was Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who orbited Earth in Vostok 1 in 1961. The following year, American astronaut John Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit Earth. American Neil Armstrong was the first human being to set foot on the moon in 1969.
[Space fact 5] Astronauts can grow up to 3% taller during the six months they spend on the International Space Station. Without gravity, their spines are free to expand. It takes a couple of months of being back on Earth for them to return to their preflight height.
[Space fact 6] The largest flower on Earth is also the smelliest. Native to Sumatra, The corpse flower smells like rotting flesh.
[Space fact 7] Although a full moon seems bright, it is actually reflecting just 7% of the sun’s rays.
[Space fact 8] The gravitational force of the moon in relation to Earth slows Earth’s rotation by about 1.5 milliseconds per century and raises the moon into higher orbit by about 3.8 centimeters or 1.5 inches per year.
[Space fact 9] Just .0003% of the Earth’s water can be used by humans.
[Space fact 10] Scientists estimate that there may be as many as 20 trillion galaxies in our universe.
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This space facts generator can generate some interesting space facts for free. These space facts can help you learn some new knowledge and know more about space.
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