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Saturday, September 7, 2013

Superb Space Facts

Did you know that

  • The International Space Station is actually not in space; it's in a very space like layer of the Earth's atmosphere called the exosphere?
  • The closest star to the Earth not including the Sun is in the Alpha Centauri star system and is called Proxima Centauri?
  • All 4 Mars rovers ever to land on Mars not including landers were launched by the United States?
  • Around 400 astronauts have been in space?
  • Despite popular belief; Andromeda is not the closest galaxy to the Milky Way; that honor belongs instead to the Small Maganellic Cloud?
  • The barcode, the smoke detector, among other products were originally made for astronauts in space?
By: Avi Goel, Age 9

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