In honor of SpaceX’s successful launch this weekend, we offer FactSlaps, Orbital Edition:
- You can’t cry on space because your tears won’t ever fall.
- According to astronauts, space smells like seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes.
- In 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima.
- Astronauts on the International Space Station witness around 15 sunrises and 15 sunsets every day.
- The International Space Station is the most expensive object ever built, at $150 billion.
- A sample of Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree was sent into space to ‘defy gravity.’
- In 1977, we received a signal from deep space that lasted 72 seconds. We still don’t know how or where it came from.
- The International Space Station is as roomy as a five-bedroom house and travels at 17,500 mph.
- Most astronauts become two inches taller in space.
- There is a water reservoir floating in space that is equivalent to 140 trillion times all the water in the world’s ocean.
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