1. Any free-moving liquid in outer space will form itself into a sphere, because of its surface tension.
2. Mercury, Venus, earth and Mars are called the inner planets as they are closest to the sun!
3. December 21st 1968, was the first time that humans truly left Earth, when Apollo 8 became the first manned space vehicle to leave Earth orbit and to orbit the Moon.
4. Olympus Mons, a volcano found on Mars, is the largest volcano found in solar system. It is 370 miles (595 km) across and rises 15 miles (24 km).
5. We know more about space than we do about our deep oceans!
6. The space age began on the 4th October 1957.
7. If you attempted to count all the stars in a galaxy at a rate of one every second it would take around 3,000 years to count them all.
8. The one and only satellite that Britain has launched was called Black Arrow.
9. The odds of being killed by space debris - 1 in 5 billion.
10. The Earth's revolution time increases .0001 seconds annually.
11. Driving at 75 miles (121 km) per hour, it would take 258 days to drive around one of Saturn's rings.
12. Astronaut Neil Armstrong (the first man on the moon) first stepped on the moon with his left foot.
13. "Moon" was Buzz Aldrin's (second man on the moon) mother's maiden name.
14. The first conventional use for rockets was rocket mail and catching whales and deer.
15. The only married couple to fly together in space were Jan Davis and Mark Lee, who flew aboard the Endeavour space shuttle from September 12-20, 1992.
16. The first millennium, 1 - 1000 AD, consisted of 365,250 days. Our current millennium, 1001 - 2000 AD, will consist of 365,237 days. The third millennium, 2001 - 3000 AD, will consist of 365,242 days. The reason for the differences is the calendar system that was in use during the milleniums.
17. If you shouted in space even if someone was right next to you they wouldn't be able to hear you.
18. Feb 1865 and Feb 1999 are the only months in recorded history not to have a full moon.
19. The first man-made satellite in space was called sputnik.
20. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
21. Just 20 seconds worth of fuel remained when Apollo 11's lunar module landed on the moon.
22. The first woman in space was a Russian called Valentina Tereshkova.
23. One Day on the planet Pluto is about the length of a week on Earth.
24. Saturn’s rings are made up of particles of ice, dust and rock. Some particles are as small as grains of sand while others are much larger than skyscrapers.
25. Jupiter is larger than 1,000 Earths.
26. The Great Red Spot on Jupiter is a hurricane-like storm system that was first detected in the early 1600’s.
27. Comet Hale-Bopp is putting out approximately 250 tons of gas and dust per second. This is about 50 times more than most comets produce.
28. The Sun looks 1600 times fainter from Pluto than it does from the Earth.
29. There is a supermassive black hole right in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy that is 4 million times the mass of the Sun.
30. Halley’s Comet appears about every 76 years.
31. The orbits of most asteroids lie partially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
32. Asteroids and comets are believed to be ancient remnants of the formation of our Solar System (More than 4 billion years ago!).
33. Comets are bodies of ice, rock and organic compounds that can be several miles in diameter.
34. The most dangerous asteroids, those capable of causing major regional or global disasters, usually impact the Earth only once every 100,000 years on average.
35. Some large asteroids even have their own moon.
36. Near-Earth asteriods have orbits that cross the Earth’s orbit. These could potentially impact the Earth.
37. There are over 20 million observable meteors per day.
38. Only one or two meteorites per day reach the surface of Earth.
39. The largest found meteorite was found in Hoba, Namibia. It weighed 60 tons.
40. The typical size of a meteor is about one cubic centimeter, which is equivalent to the size of a sugar cube.
41. Each day, Earth accumulate 10 to 100 tons of material.
42. There are over 100 billion galaxies in the universe.
43. The largest galaxies contain nearly 400 billion stars.
44. The risk of a falling meteorite striking a human occurs once every 9,300 years.
45. A piece of a neutron star the size of a pin point would way 1 million tons.
46. Europa, Jupiter’s moon, is completely covered in ice.
47. Light reflecting off the moon takes 1.2822 seconds to reach Earth.
48. There has only been one satellite destroyed by a meteor, it was the European Space Agency’s Olympus in 1993.
49. The International Space Station orbits at 248 miles above the Earth.
50. The Earth orbits the Sun at 66,700mph.
51. Venus spins in the opposite direction compared to the Earth and most other planets. This means that the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East.
52. The Moon is moving away from the Earth at about 34cm per year.
53. The Sun, composed mostly of helium and hydrogen, has a surface temperature of 6000 degrees Celsius.
54. A manned rocket reaches the moon in less time than it took a stagecoach to travel the length of England.
55. The nearest known black hole is 1,600 light years (10 quadrillion miles/16 quadrillion kilometers) away.
56. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust.
57. Only 55% of Americans know that the sun is a star.
58. There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.
59. Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
60. It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
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