Weird but True
Space smells like...
Burnt steak
Mercury’s temperature during the day is...
800°F
Earth is the only planet to support life
FACT!
Food going to space needs to be _______ to reduce weight and extend shelf life without refrigeration while maintaining nutritional value.
Freeze dried
The first animals launched into space were _________ in 1947
Fruit flies
4 asteroids are named after this popular boy band.
The Beatles: John, Paul, George, and Ringo
Pluto planet was reclassified as a dwarf planet in which year?
2006
Not all stars are white, some are green, yellow, and red
FALSE! Stars are yellow, orange, and blue.
The typical stay in space is...
6 months
The temperature in the void of space is about...
−270.45 °C
_________ was the first food eaten in space by an American astronaut
Apple sauce
This planet is the largest in our solar system.
Jupiter! It is about 11 times wider than the earth.
There could be as many as 10 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way
FACT!
What is the difference between astronauts and cosmonauts?
Astronauts are trained by western agencies, while cosmonauts are trained by russian agencies
In space, your spine stretches and you grow up to...
5 cm taller!
It rains _____ on Neptune and Uranus
Diamonds! High pressure in these planets' atmospheres turns carbon into sparkling diamonds
This planet could float in water...
Saturn! It could theoretically float on water because it's made mostly of hydrogen and helium, giving it a lower density.
Driving your car to the nearest star would take over 200 billion years
FALSE! It would take 300 billion years.
What are the 2 primary and official languages of the International Space Station (ISS)?
English and russian
How many estimated galaxies are there, based on what we know?
2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) galaxies
Space sounds like...
Nothing! Because space lacks an atmosphere, it is completely silent, meaning sound waves cannot travel.
One day on this planet is longer than one year.
Venus! That's 243 Earth days to rotate once – the longest rotation of any planet in the Solar System
If you drilled a tunnel through Earth and jumped in, you would reach the other side in 42 minutes
FACT!
Neil armstrong was the first person to land on the moon. Following this, ________ was the second person to walk on the moon. These were both done on the same day during the Apollo 11 mission.
Buzz Aldrin
Mars is home to the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, which is nearly three times the height of...
Mount Everest