[Space fact 1] When you look up at the night sky with the naked eye, every star you see is part of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
[Space fact 2] Pluto's orbit sometimes crosses Neptune's orbit, but they never collide.
[Space fact 3] Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She married fellow cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev and they became the first couple who had been to space to marry each other. They had a daughter named Elena. Elena became the first person to have both parents who had been to outer space.
[Space fact 4] The six Apollo crews came back to Earth with a total of 850 pounds (385 kg) of the moon.
[Space fact 5] Ancient astronomers called Venus both Phosphorous and Hesperus, mistakenly believing that the object visible in the morning and evening were two separate celestial bodies. The planet was later named Venus after the Roman goddess of beauty and love.
[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] The introduction of Arabic numbers in Europe around A.D. 1200 both readily simplified multiplication and allowed for more complex calculations. Previously, medieval Europe used Roman numbers, which were straightforward for simple addition equations, but were extremely difficult to multiply or divide.
[Space fact 8] Saturn’s nearest moon takes just 12 hours to circle the planet. Its farthest moon takes more than three Earth years.
[Space fact 9] The full cost of a spacesuit is about $11 million. Almost 70% of this is for the control module and the backpack.
[Space fact 10] In 1961, when Yuri Gagarin returned from space Nikita Khrushchev wanted to boost the Soviet's anti-religion campaign by saying: "Gagarin flew into space, but didn't see any God there."
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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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